What is a mirror file? Please don t use too technical jargon, I m a layman.

When you stand in front of a large mirror, the mirror has your shadow, and in computer language, the shadow is called your mirror file. For example, from an XP system on the Internet, burned to a disc by a recorder, the XP on the disc can be called an image file. This is often referred to as carving a system image file.

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The image file is a file that combines data and programs, and it converts the data to the hard disk after format conversion and saves it as a file with the exact same content as the destination disc, and then we can engrave this file into the disc in a one-to-one correspondence way. In addition, since the size of an image file is equivalent to the entire contents engraved into the disc, it is necessary to reserve more than this capacity of hard disk space to store the image file.

An image file is actually a separate file, and unlike other files, it is made from multiple files through burning software or image file creation tools.

Image files are used in a wide range of applications, and the most common application is data backup (such as floppy disks and optical discs). With the popularization of broadband networks, some **** also have ISO format files**, which facilitates the production and transmission of software discs. Common image file formats include ISO, BIN, IMG, TAO, DAO, CIF, and FCD.

The image file format is a file-based disk image format. The so-called image file is actually similar to the zip archive, which makes a specific series of files into a single file according to a certain format for the convenience of users** and use, such as a beta version of the operating system, games, etc.

Image files are designed by Microsoft and released on Windows Vista and later Windows operating systems to support some of their standard installation procedures. The image file is an "extract" of the disc. It is compatible well with older versions of the Windows operating system and is partially used in Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCS.

Its most important feature is that it can be recognized by specific software and can be burned directly to a disc. In fact, the image file in the usual sense can be expanded to contain more information in the image file.

For example, system files, boot files, partition table information, etc., so that the image file can contain all the information of a partition or even a hard disk. In general, burning software can directly burn the content contained in the supported image file to the disc. In fact, the image file is the "extract" of the disc.