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This tool has been superseded by the original daa2iso converter (© Luigi Auriemna), which now has it’s own GUI.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.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
more info on the daa here
http://dotwhat.net/daa/5280/
October 29th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
@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.
October 27th, 2008 at 6:39 am
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
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
@shadow’s shadow? - That’s the idea.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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?
September 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
[...] Seems Power ISO is the only software to open .daa file extension. Did you tried DAA to ISO GUI daa2iso gui. [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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
September 12th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Thanks .. will try to download a different file.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
i have downloaded dream weaver cs3 & get .daa files but i con’t convert to iso file kindly ans . to my mail.thank you .
September 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
@Wldboy - You probably didn’t do anything wrong, but the file you’re trying to convert might be corrupted.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:22 am
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September 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am
for mac / apple use
http://www.twilightedge.com/mac/daaconverter/history.html
September 1st, 2008 at 7:21 pm
@Spike - Well, the file is probably corrupted?
September 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
What does it mean when it says the compressed ZLIB input is wrong or incomplete?
August 29th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I have downloaded an autocad2007 with a daa extension, this utility is great.. thx a lot..
August 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Nice job!!!
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August 7th, 2008 at 3:50 am
This is genius software, and I have been looking for this for a very long time. Thanks to both you and Luigi … Brilliant
July 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
@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.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:47 am
@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
July 15th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
@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.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Please if possible can someone drop me an email regarding this topic ?
hitesh.bhrdwj@gmail.com
July 15th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
@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
July 12th, 2008 at 11:50 am
@Flash - it seems you haven’t noticed the big, italic note at the top of this page
July 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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?
July 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
@? - looks like the site is down. Somebody posted this mirror in another post : http://www.badongo.com/file/9762107
July 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
excuse me, your link to download the run program of converting .daa files no longer exist. please provide the active link.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 am
beautiful world