Working with images: the more you open the ISO

Working with ISO files is actually not so terrible and incomprehensible as it seems at first glance. Today we will consider how to open the ISO and how to continue to work with it.

To start a little theory. ISO files are an exact copy of a CD or DVD in the form of an image. In this form, information can be transmitted over the Internet, can be downloaded from the network, using a special program, you can write the decrypted image to a CD. There are programs (emulators) with which you can work with this type of files without decoding and writing to a CD. How to work with them - we'll look at this a little later.

I can almost hear "... how difficult everything is, and whether it's impossible to do something simpler, without these technical bells and whistles ...". Fear has big eyes. In our case, everything is much simpler and more pleasant.

Than to open ISO file. Almost every user in the arsenal has a program for working with archives called WinRAR. It turns out that you can open the ISO file using the usual WinRAR. Sequence of your actions:
1. Open the program WinRAR. In the program window, we find and click the Parameters tab;
2. Select the Settings item, then we will need Integration;
3. A window will open in which we will put a green tick near the inscription ISO;
4. Click OK.

All. Now the question of how to open the ISO is not a question. WinRAR will help you. Click the icon / image name with the right mouse button. Then either "open with help" (and we already know with which help) or "extract to ..." and you have unpacked information from the image on your hard disk.

Emulator programs: why they are needed and how to work with them. Let's start with the first - why they are needed. Some images contain information that can not be started / installed from the hard disk. For correct operation, you only need a CD and a CD / DVD drive. It is, in particular, about games. They are such inventors, these developers.

In this case, we will really need special programs that create a virtual CD / DVD drive on the computer . This virtual drive mounts a disk image and .... Everything works as the doctor prescribed.

On an example of a free DAEMON Tools Lite program, let's look at how this works:
1. Download and install the program;
2. After installation in the system tray (the lower right corner, where the clock is), the program management icon will appear (circle with lightning);
3. Point the cursor at it and press the right mouse button;
4. We need a Virtual CD / DVD ROM;
5. Then we move the cursor to the word Drive;
6. After that, select and click the "Mount Image" button;
7. In the open window, you must find and select the image file, in our case with the ISO extension. Thus, we are sort of "inserting a disk into the drive";
8. Press the magic button "Open" and ... all. The process is started. Everything is working.

In the future, an open image can always be found by going to My Computer. You will see a new CD / DVD drive on your computer. This is our virtual friend. If you no longer need a disk, you can unmount it from the drive. The procedure is similar to mounting (points 3 to 6). You need to select "Unmount image".

How to open an ISO image using Alcohol 120%. The phrase "Alcohol 120%" is the name of a popular program for working with image files. She knows how to open ISO files, as well as image files in the formats mds, ccd / img / sub, cue / bin, nrg, bwt / bwi / bws, cdi.

Do not be confused by the abundance of unfamiliar types of formats. If you know how and how to open ISO - the rest of the splendor in the program Alcohol 120% opens exactly the same.
1. Install the program;
2. Run the Alcohol 120%;
3. In the empty main menu window, right-click (or, as the File / Open option);
4. Select the item "Add images";
5. In the window we look for and find the desired image;
6. Then click "Open";
7. The selected image appears in the main window. Point to it with the cursor, right-click, select "Mount to device";
8. Select the mounted image in the drive list.

That's it. I hope that the knowledge gained will be enough to answer the question "how to open the ISO" and not only ISO. Now there are no barriers to you. Good luck!