.DAA file or Direct Access Archive, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for archiving large disk image files (ISO files). .DAA files format features include compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes.
.DAA files can be easily opened using PowerISO but you have to buy PowerISO to open large files. You get .DAA files commonly on the file-sharing P2P services (like BitTorrent). Opening/Extracting .DAA files is a two steps process:
- Convert the .DAA file to an ISO file.
- Burning/Extracting or Mounting ISO file to get the files.
Download the DAA2ISO. There is no installation required just open the zip file and double click the DAA2ISO.exe and select the source .DAA file to be converted click open, then choose the location and file name of the ISO file to be created after conversion. Hit save and the DAA2ISO will convert the DAA file into ISO format.
ISO file can be used by burning it on a disc or extracting it using popular archiving utilities like Winrar, 7Zip or mounting it using a free software as described HERE.