What are iso files, and how do I open them?

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I am having an issue moving ISO images to my external hard drive. It tells me that there is not enough memory to transfer the file to the hard drive, but there is 115 GB of space. Is there something in the ISO format that will not allow me to store them on an external drive?
Thanks
Robert

Is it possible to transfer the ISO file directly to a device (eg PSP)without having to burn it onto a disk.

I have used IMGBurn to burn an ISO file to a DVD+RW disc. It goes through the full procedure and says that burning is complete, although when I re-insert the disc there are no files or folders evident and it shows that there is O bytes Free Space and Total Size is 0 bytes. The original file was about 2.5 GBytes. I have had the same result with Active ISO Burner.Can you please help?

I used daemon lite, but personally i preferred isodisc. The program itself is like 600 kb and its simple.. You can burn as well as access with ghost drives, it give you 26, so u have plenty.

Hi, i have downloaded this game from web and the problem is that there is no way that i could burn that game into a disc as the memory of that game is like almost 7GB and ofcourse, it is an ISO format file. So please comment on how can i install the game? Like, is there a way to have it installed without having that ISO file burned to an external disc? If no, what are the other options? and yes, i also have a extractor which normally works for opening RAR format files but that too doesnt seem to work on ISO format i guess.

I am having an issue moving ISO images to my external hard drive. It tells me that there is not enough memory to transfer the file to the hard drive, but there is 115 GB of space. Is there something in the ISO format that will not allow me to store them on an external drive?
Thanks
Robert

Well, I had the same problem, but you can easily avoid it by giving the order to transfer (copy) a big file using the system symbol as a DOS command: copy f:\xxx.iso d:\ or so, and it works for files of any size.

Cheers,

Luis

Well I have had trouble with the ISO files too...i have used IMGburn and clicked on "write mode" but in this case i downloaded a game file WITH the ISO image file in it and there was also this other file called the "disc image file" do i burn them together? or burn the ISO file or the disk image file?

Hi, i have downloaded this game from web and the problem is that there is no way that i could burn that game into a disc as the memory of that game is like almost 7GB and i exracted this game to a folder i installed the game on my computer, but it asks for the cd, how do i change the game acess my folder as it is acessing drive.

let me know.. better tool for opening the ISO files.

Similar to Jack's issue, I have an ISO file that is almost 7GB in size. Thanks to this thread, I now understand that I need to burn the ISO with specific software. Before I get to that step, however, I need to figure out what I can burn the ISO file *onto*. I have a DVD here but it's only 4.7GB in size. Any suggestions are welcome!

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