Free DAA to ISO Converter GUI
This tool has been superseded by the original daa2iso converter (© Luigi Auriemna), which now has it’s own GUI. Use that.
A while ago I wrote a tutorial about the DAA file extension, which has gotten a lot of visits ever since. One of the comments on that post pointed me to a free DAA-to-ISO converter by Luigi Auriemna. It’s a nice tool, but it requires that you know how to use command-line utilities (and many users don’t). That’s why I decided to make a simple graphical user interface (GUI) for the converter.
Features
Converter Features (by Luigi Auriemna)
- Converts DAA archives to ISO files. You can then burn the ISO file to a CD or DVD with one of the many freeware tools (e.g. ImgBurn) or whatever. Nearly 100% of CD/DVD software support the ISO format.
- Supports multipart DAA files.
Interface Features (by me, Janis Elsts)
- Takes care of all the command-line stuff.
- Simple Windows interface – two textboxes and a button.
- Drag-and-drop a DAA file onto the application window to select it as the input file.
- Doesn’t require installation – just extract the .zip file somewhere and run daa_converter.exe.
Download DAA to ISO converter
Download : daa2iso_gui.zip (230 Kb) and daa2iso.zip from this page.
Extract both ZIP archives to the same folder and run daa_converter.exe. If that doesn’t work, try daa2iso.exe – it has a different interface, but can be more stable.
FAQ
Wait, do I need to download the converter/interface separately?
Yes. Originally I had them both in the same ZIP file, but Luigi – the author of the converter – asked me to remove the converter executable from this distribution.
When I tried to convert a file something just flashed on my screen and nothing else happened! Huh?
That’s probably because the converter encountered an error. You can try to run it from the command prompt to see the particular error message – feel free to study the beginners guide to WinXP command prompt if you don’t know how.
I tried the command prompt and it still doesn’t work. What now?
In this case you can try to contact Luigi, the author of the converter. Don’t ask me – I only made the window with the textboxes and a button 
I have a question about the GUI part, who do I ask?
Feel free to leave a comment below.
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I love you all……thanks soooo much for all your hard work!
Thank you for posting this and taking your time to write the GUI, it certainly is useful.
This rocks; thanks for your time and trouble.
Thank you so much. This is really awesome. We all really appreciate all the time and hardwork you put into making this.
Thanx.Great little progam
Excellent work. I downloaded it, ran it, converted it, and I was done, no problems
I’m so glad there are people out there that make these things possible *hugs*
Thanks again ^^
I have created a .daa file and I have aadded a pssword , then I forgot it !!!!
now I can not open it , I have tried the converter and it is flashing in and out . I am using windows Vista any one have any suggestion ?
thank you
Sorry, the converter doesn’t support password-protected files. And since the DAA file format is relatively uncommon, I doubt there are any password recovery tools available.
Thank you so much.
I would like to add my thanks as well. This is such a great utility! Wish I had the talent to do such work alas, I am a recovering geek now paramedic and just don’t have the skills anymore. Be safe…
It really looks like a great tool, but I can’t download it anymore. Could you please upload the daa2Iso utility?
The download works fine on my end.
Thank you very much
Great little Utility. very user friendly :thankyou:
Did anyone succeed in using daa2iso on linux (via “wine” or other way)?
Works perfect! Many thanks for sharing Your work.
Now it is just as easy as Power ISO – but free. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this – your hard work has been much appreciated by me and others. Thanks once again!
Your work appreciated, thank you – and of course the Luigi man
I tried the gui all I got was a flash.If I wanted to run dos I would have kept the first computer I had 12 plus years ago.Someone posted “daa’s suck dump it”.I agree.
Thanks. This sure is a nifty little tool…
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a couple of days ago I have released a new version of daa2iso.
The only difference is that now supports big files… Mingw is a great compiler but don’t talk to it about compatibility of fseek/ftell at 64 bits
Thanks for the info, I’ll update the archive on my site.
thanks. this was simple and great. i still have a lot to learn about using and getting around these weird files…thanks a lot. a donation to you will be made as soon as i can.
THANKS
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This programs rocks. Thanks for helping out the rest of us!!!
WITH A FUCKEN TROIAN .
What? That’s a bit of a non-sequitur… shall I assume you are a spammer?
I have an antivirus & firewall running at all times and I strongly doubt the possibility that any of my programs might contain trojans.
Damn i love you. spent hours trying to convert before. fuck .daa
You “required” second download “daa2iso.zip” just links to “it.altervista.ms”. No download in “site” pun intended. Not a legitimate program or download, it appears.
Looks like a direct link for that file doesn’t work. Fixed now.
didn’t work
Just found your app to convert the stupid DAA type – Good App – Bad type…
Anyway – I’m using it for the first time to try to create an ISO for Elements 6.0. I’ve used the GUI and selected the file to convert (just 1), and I’ve elected the name to use on the converted ISO – I see the file I asked it to create, but it’s at 0 bytes still. I guess I’m wondering how long a conversion will take? – 80MB apx. I don’t see anything in the command prompt for GUI that lets me know of it’s progress. I just see in the command prompt: “Press ENTER to quit”.
Is it running??
Thanks so much for all your efforts and support!!
Try the daa2iso.exe itself, maybe that’ll work.
Unfortunately I can’t offer any better help at the moment, I’m a bit sick (phsically), so not thinking very clearly.
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your a legend, brilliant explanation. good work
great prog virus and trojan free saved me hours tearing my hair out cheers i highly recommend these downloads and i rarely say that
The download link at the top of the page fo rthe gui zip doesn
‘t seem to work on y Visat box, however the download link in one of the comments does. Thank you.
I just wanted to say thank you for the software. It’s gonna save a headache and I get that it probably took a bunch of your time. So, thanks!
~R~
How can I make a gui for a command-prompt program? please contact me.
There’s nothing special to it and no specific tutorials to study. Basically you just make an application that will launch the command-prompt tool with certain parameters.
Thanx for the great program, saves time because there is no need to download powerISO , and just use Deamon toolz
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YES! This works great! Thank you so much!
Thanks a million. worked beautifully. I’ll be saving this as a very useful tool.
thanks work great and you explained it all well. NICE!
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I cant use this. When I push the ‘Start Conversion’ button It opening me a new DAA to Iso Gui window. Please help me!
Try running daa2iso.exe, not daa_converter.
Works fine for me. Thanks a lot
lately some people are contacting me asking why they must reselect the files multiple times…
I’m curious to know why you continue to say that my tools are command-line only and people need your launcher to use them with the GUI.
this is totally false and in fact your launcher does just nothing since the dialogs for selecting the real files are those of daa2iso/uif2iso.
The truth is I’ve been too busy/lazy to reqrite this post to reflect that. I’ll just put a big link to your page at the top and be done with it.
can sum1 plz tell frm where do i d/l daa2iso.zip or daa2iso.exe? ? ? ?
therez no link on my page. i nly got daa2iso_gui.zip. . . .
can sum1 plz tell me frm where do i d/l daa2iso.zip or daa2iso.exe? ? ? there’s no link on my page, i juz got daa2ios_gui.zip. . . .
i got d file, bt i still can’t convert it! ! !
sum1 plz help me out. . .
The link is in big, italic letters right at the top of this page.
If daa2iso.exe doesn’t work for you, the file probably isn’t supported by the converter, and you’re out of luck.
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Thanks for all of your hard work! You’ve made my life a lot easier with this and the uif converter. Most people don’t appreciate the knowledge that it take to make even simple programs like these.
Cheers, worked like a dream!
ive been searching everywhere for this, and it worked flawlessly to rid me of all my stupid power iso problems. thank you very much!
After converting part01.daa to part01.iso, I tried converting part02.daa to part02.iso but is says it needs to be part01.daa. I can’t get it to convert the second part. Any help would be very appreciated.
You’ll have to ask Luigi about that
Nevermind, figured it out. I need to read before I post, heh. Thanks a bunch!
thanks a ton dude ….. hope you have recovered by now …. keep up the good work …
thank you !(cam on nha !)
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excuse me, your link to download the run program of converting .daa files no longer exist. please provide the active link.
@? – looks like the site is down. Somebody posted this mirror in another post : http://www.badongo.com/file/9762107
Even though I specify an output file name when using your GUI interface, after I click the ‘Start Conversion!’ button I get another ‘DOS’ window opening up that asks for the output file name again. What’s with that?
@Flash – it seems you haven’t noticed the big, italic note at the top of this page
@White Shadow –
Hi ,
I tried using your software to convert my files to iso, but i faced an error in command prompt that not enough space.
I have attached the image also of that error.
Please guide me or tell me any other option how i can convert these files .
and is there any player in which i can play daa files directly without converting them to iso ?
regards
Hitesh Bhardwaj
Please if possible can someone drop me an email regarding this topic ?
hitesh.bhrdwj@gmail.com
@Hitesh – well, might it be that you actually don’t have enough space on your hard disk? You will need enough space to store both the original and the converted file (though you can delete the original later).
I’m quite certain there are no players that could play DAA files. This is because DAA itself is not a video format – it’s a format used to store other files or collections of files (=complete copies of CD/DVDs), similar to ZIP archives.
@White Shadow –
Hi,
thanks for reply
Well that was an obvious thing to think about weather i have a disk space, but there is absolutely no problem with the space.
but still i dont know whats the error.
if u give me ur email id, then i might send u the print screen of error.
regards
Hitesh
@Hitesh – Maybe it’s a filesystem issue. If the converted file is very large (I don’t remember exactly, but around 4 GB I think) it can’t be stored on a FAT32 filesystem. This shouldn’t be a problem with NTFS.
In any case, my email is whiteshadow at w-shadow dot com.
This is genius software, and I have been looking for this for a very long time. Thanks to both you and Luigi … Brilliant
Nice job!!!
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Thanks for this great util. I found it very usefull, when I had downloaded an daa file, it worked like an charm, and so did the converter
Keep up the great stuff coming.
Thanks a lot! I have downloaded a daa image with software for my phone(at the moment broken) and i needed the flash file on the daa. you and luigi just saved my phone
) thanks a lot!
I have downloaded an autocad2007 with a daa extension, this utility is great.. thx a lot..
What does it mean when it says the compressed ZLIB input is wrong or incomplete?
@Spike – Well, the file is probably corrupted?
for mac / apple use
http://www.twilightedge.com/mac/daaconverter/history.html
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Hi, can someone help me please? I was so happy to find this software and when tried to convert a daa file, I get the following error?
the uncompressed size doesn’t match the chunksize
What does this mean? Is there anything that I did wrong?
@Wldboy – You probably didn’t do anything wrong, but the file you’re trying to convert might be corrupted.
i have downloaded dream weaver cs3 & get .daa files but i con’t convert to iso file kindly ans . to my mail.thank you .
Thanks .. will try to download a different file.
hi i trid to convert some books i downloaded from a torrent site, and im getting this error shown below:
- Alert: unknown DAA version (00000110 00000001 00000000)
Error: No such file or directory
Press RETURN to quit
please help me. thnx
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so whether version of the software i use i should be able to convert a .daa bootable file and convert it to a iso bootable image or will i have to do some thing else?
@shadow’s shadow? – That’s the idea.
ok. i have a .daa file of two movies in one. i got it from mininova.org what do i do and how do i do it free??? i have no money to pay for a converter for just one freaking movie! I am really annoyed by this. why would someone put up a file that is hard to open? makes no sense to me! uggggggggghhhhh. anyhow, i just want to go ahead a burn it to DVD and get it over with. someone please help. thanks. P.S. i am not very good with computers. not anything too advanced at least. so please no jargon. it will only confuse. lol
@MiriHumi – Short version :
1. Download this
2. Extract to any location
3. Run the .exe and use it to convert the .daa to .iso. Should be pretty easy to figure it out.
4. Find a freeware ISO burner. ImgBurn will do.
5. Burn the ISO file to a disk.
That’s it.
more info on the daa here
http://dotwhat.net/daa/5280/
Good tutz!!
Work perfectly
Now i can open my .daa file
btw how to convert some ISO to .daa ?
bcoz i see that .daa format can compress more size
That’s mean more space for my HD :p
Regards
@ghprod – To convert ISO to DAA, use PowerISO (shareware). I don’t think there are any other programs that can do it.
It doesn’t work. when I select a daa-file to convert it says can’t found daa2iso.exe.
so i changed the name to daa2iso and i tried again but when i pressed conversion it open the program aigain:@
@M@ster – Have you downloaded both files? If not, check the post for the second download link.
I found the first file to convert DAA to iso but I can’t seem to find the link to the second file daa2iso.zip could you em the link to me. I have a multi book collection about 25 medical titles that are in DAA format and I am pretty sure I will need both files that are mentioned. If this is not the case just let me know.I’m pretty sure once I have converted them that I can put more than one title on a DVD otherwise it will take 25 DVD’s which is way to many DVD’s.
Thanks for time and giving the information. If I missed seeing the second link I appologize.
Thank you
JS
@Judy Stanley – Here is the direct link : daa2iso.zip
Sweet – thanks man and thanks to Luigi for this great little tool!! Cheers
DAAs are the blane of P2P noobs who should be banned from the intarwebs.
thank you for re-adjusting the balance in our favour
forever grateful, the IT Pros.
Thanks so so so much..I was a little confused at first because I didn’t know where to look for the 2nd part (daa2iso.zip) but all you have to do is scroll a teeny bit on Luigi’s page. Just converted my first file!! Excellent
Thanks again!!
a very good software. anyway got to find any files to .daa converter. ready to search now. i really appreciate your hard work on sharing this software and info. many thanks.
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retards i will report this site and this mininova with bootlegs to the MPAA beware
May also take a look at this daa to iso converter, it’s free as well and converts some other formats to iso.
Thanks alot for this, you’re a live saver!
thanks a lot.
Worked like a charm. Thanks for your detailed explanation and for bringing us such a great tool!
I try to convert a daa file but once it reached about 4g, it stopped and said that Check disk space. In fact, I have plenty of disk spaces. Is there a restriction on file size?
Maybe. Is your disk formatted as FAT32? That filesystem has a 4Gb limit.
Thanks a lot for this. Worked like a charm first time.
Thank you for your time in programming this GUI!
Thanks a lot!
this converter is shit.
the direct link : daa2iso.zip not working // plz post a working link
Looks like Luigi’s site is down. Hopefully it will return eventually.
http://sandeepchauhan.com/ella/daa2iso.exe
You are a god…
good
Thank u…
Thanks for this. A Life saver
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DA BOMB, DA SHIZNITZ, DA ABSOLUTE BEST, THE GREATEST LITTLE CONVERTER OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey man, thanks so much. This saved me alot of time
Works 100%
Thx a lot
Thank you man, thank from sunny Serbia and White Belgrade
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i cannot open the 2nd daa2iso..pls help