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Comment from Steve Lewis on 2009-11-07

2009-11-07T14:15:12Z

I have a couple of iso files on my computer that my son installed on the system - both relate to the Halo game.

I'm trying to defrag as my files are hopelessly split up, but these two files with over 100,000 fragments between them are accounting for a 32% defragmentaion on the disk, and the system will not include them in the defrag. How can I force the defrag?

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Comment from Michael, London on 2009-10-27

2009-10-27T10:45:04Z

Thank you so much for your simple and clear advice - I've often had iso files and not had a clue what to do with them. The 7-zip advice worked a treat, so thanks a lot :)

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Comment from Mid-Tech on 2009-10-26

2009-10-26T15:24:28Z

ISO-Burner Freeware is very user friendly, free, and very fast. Here is a link where you can download it: http://www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm

Enjoy.

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Comment from Adam on 2009-10-23

2009-10-23T21:50:18Z

My brother works in IT and runs ISO's without burning them to discs several times a day at his job, so he knows what he's doing. He said the program called MagicDisc works great.

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Comment from Vijay Bubna Blue Sun Info on 2009-10-11

2009-10-11T22:52:58Z

Hey Guys,

my WinRar worked with iso its good one and free

Vijay BUbna

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Comment from Amanda on 2009-09-20

2009-09-21T01:45:17Z

Thank You!! This helped a lot. Expecially the 7 Zip part thanks!

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Comment from joed kevin on 2009-09-10

2009-09-10T13:51:31Z

haha,,,i thought it was something im not gonna open my file coz its iso...u simply need 7zip.i already have it and i didnt know that i can open iso files here ,lol

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Comment from C. on 2009-08-10

2009-08-10T10:42:32Z

Thanks a lot
used winrar to open the iso file. This was a good explanation
Thank you

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Comment from sh on 2009-08-06

2009-08-07T06:16:35Z

I recently download a game with 20 iso files. how do you combine all the individual iso files (20 files)for the game to work or is the a way to install the game using the 20 iso files? I can't open the iso file with winzip. any other software i can use

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Comment from james on 2009-06-16

2009-06-16T21:38:02Z

i have a psp and i have been trying to put games on it. but i think i need an iso file. how can i get an iso file without makeing a cd? do i have to put it on a cd? i dont want to put it on a cd.

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Comment from Julian on 2009-05-27

2009-05-27T18:14:56Z

I had to format my PC, before that my ISO files appeared like ABCDEF.ISO; right now after the format they appear as a RAR file so my questions here how do I do to put the things the way they were? and sorry my ignorance about it; is this a real problem?.
I appreciate your help. Thanks

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Comment from Phyllis Dwyer on 2009-05-19

2009-05-19T23:00:36Z

I have DVd's with video images - I'm trying to import them so I can edit them. Windows Movie Maker doesn't recognize them so I downloaded them onto my computer - still no luck. They saved as ISO files. Now what? They play just fine in Windows Media Player.

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Comment from Richard on 2009-05-07

2009-05-07T07:49:42Z

i just downloaded a software program to help with my uni study. its a human anatomy and physiology cd. its one big iso file and ive managed to unzip its contents but how do i burn it to disc as though it was just bought off the shelf?? do i put all the files that were unzipped on the disc or is there something else i need to do?

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Comment from The Promis on 2009-04-13

2009-04-13T12:50:49Z

Hey Guys,
There is a software Named PowerIso or MagicISo
All Of You Can Open .ISO files , .Bin and ...
There

Thanks
Promis

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Comment from Stefana on 2009-04-11

2009-04-11T20:16:58Z

Hi guys,
I have an iso file also and I managed to open it with Undisker...a piece of software that I found on google search.
See if that helps

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Comment from jennifer on 2009-04-06

2009-04-06T17:01:59Z

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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Comment from Arpit Srivastava on 2009-03-31

2009-03-31T11:19:49Z

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

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Comment from jack on 2009-03-15

2009-03-15T12:53:57Z

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.

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Comment from Victor on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T12:41:58Z

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?

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Comment from luisvig on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T17:01:14Z

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

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Comment from wangYu on 2009-01-08

2009-01-08T14:33:11Z

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.

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Comment from Patch on 2009-01-01

2009-01-02T03:20:46Z

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.

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Comment from Greg on 2008-12-30

2008-12-30T08:19:41Z

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?

Remember that you must use the burning software's steps specifically for ISO files. In order to make them work you do not burn them like normal files. Check the program's documentation.

- Leo
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Comment from Darren on 2008-12-23

2008-12-23T20:44:08Z

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

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Comment from Robert Peterson on 2008-12-01

2008-12-01T17:45:02Z

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Comment from mac on 2008-11-22

2008-11-23T01:32:25Z

Use winrar to open iso files

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Comment from Arthur HC Williams on 2008-11-22

2008-11-22T13:12:10Z

If you live in Australia, there is a copy of ImgBurn on the DVD with the current, December 2008, PCUser magazine.
Arthur HC Williams
Cairns, Queensland, Oz

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Comment from Lotus on 2008-11-16

2008-11-17T05:09:50Z

An ISO file is like packing up and going on vacation. It is sitting in some other place. To bring it 'home', it must be burned by using the ISO burning function to make it work as it was originally, on a CD or DVD. One mistake that people make is that many ISO files are very large, and if it is over the size of the CD, it won't burn properly. Usually if the ISO is over 700 megs, then you'll need to burn to a DVD writeable disc. Once you have burned it, eject the disc, then re-insert it to load up as it was in its original state.

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Comment from Steve on 2008-11-15

2008-11-15T08:43:01Z

Here's the frustration...I've burned an iso file to a CD, but all I get is the image, and none of the files...I tried six different iso burning programs, same results..Is there something I'm missing?

Apparently. You don't burn an ISO like you do a normal file. You must use the burning programs "burn from ISO" function. Most have it. (In IMGBurn, for example, it's the "Write" mode.)

- Leo
15-Nov-2008

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Comment from Henry Lu on 2008-11-11

2008-11-11T14:47:54Z

Daemon Tools Lite is what I use to "mount images" of ISO. It is free and really a neat little program to use.

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Comment from Prudence on 2008-11-11

2008-11-11T13:08:51Z

I still don't get it, so how do i extract the needed files to run the program? let's say from a downloaded torrent? could you help me step by step cause I'm totally technologically unsaavy. thanks much!

Burn the ISO to a CD or DVD using the burning software's ISO functions. Then, when you load the CD normally as a data CD the contents will be accessible.

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Comment from Elizabeth on 2008-10-30

2008-10-30T14:13:57Z

Leo.....please don't recommend 7 Zip without giving the full story. I tried to use it to extract an iso file (as discussed above) and it didn't work. And....now it has populated itself, after a complete uninstall, into my settings as the default file type for .zip folders. Can you please suggest how I may return these settings to normal again? Thanks

The full story? From my perspective is the full story is that 7-Zip works well and I continue to recommend it.

Without knowing more details of your failure - "it didn't work" doesn't tell me much - there's nothing I can do with that to alter my recommendation at all.

As to resetting it to normal - what's normal? Honest question, different people want different things. The quickest way is to install an alternative like WinZip, if that's the way you want to go. To re-enable Windows' support, see this article: Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) out at annoyances.org

Finally, it's not at all uncommon for programs not to know what things should be reset to when they are uninstalled. Yes, they could, and should, but many don't.

- Leo
01-Nov-2008

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Comment from Robel on 2008-10-25

2008-10-25T19:35:44Z

Thanks so much! Some people already rold me what it was all aboutand how i should use them but I didn't understand completely. Your explanation i much more accurate and resourceful. Thanks Leo!

I recommend usng Roxio Easy Media Creator Home for using ISO files... it's really practical!

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Comment from gio on 2008-10-04

2008-10-04T16:09:22Z

hello
i have downloaded office2008 from utorrent.
After completion the download it came one ISO file. I could not find setup file. Please help me how can i install msoffice. there is no setup file.but file size is 530MB. please help me

Downloading Office as you have done is software piracy.

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Comment from Vito on 2008-09-25

2008-09-25T11:58:14Z

hey just found this good stuff Leo. I use Daemon tools its a really good program id reccomend trying it

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Comment from shak on 2008-09-11

2008-09-12T00:48:36Z

I have burned the ISO file onto the disk, run the disk it opens up and i just have the same programme on the disk, and no i can't extract a damn thing! it just won't open, originally it wouldn't and after wasting a CD for burning it still won't! i don't know what to do? have you any other suggestions?

When you burn the ISO to disk you must use the "Burn ISO" function of your burning software, NOT the regular file burning options.

-Leo

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Comment from Scott on 2008-09-08

2008-09-08T17:57:48Z

Thanks for the info. Very helpful. FYI for windows users, there is a virtual CD driver provided by Microsoft for XP (also Vista, but I didn't research that one) that is available from MS download center - fairly simple to install and use - just make sure your ISO files are not buried too deep in the file structure - if the folder path is too long the mount will fail - I moved the ISO files to a folder on my desktop and then was able to mount them easily. Go to http://microsoft.com/downloads and search for winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel to find the page to download from.

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T21:17:42Z

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

1) Compression isn't the point of an ISO file. The point is
to represent/contain an exact disk image. You'll see CD
images distributed as ISO files, for example.

2) ISO files aren't typically used for HD images, for much
of the reason you explain: size and cost. However they're
perfect for distributing, again, a smaller disk image like
that of a CD or DVD.

3) Burn ISO file. You'll see that this, then, is almost the
only step required. The resulting burned CD will have files
on it.

4) There are also utilities available that allow you to
mount and/or view and/or extract the contents of an ISO file
without burning it - I think 7-zip is just one example. But
again, that's not the point. If I want to distribute an
image of something that you must burn to CD in order to, for
example, boot from - then an ISO is perfect.

Leo

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iD8DBQFIbUHbCMEe9B/8oqERAttwAJ9xgKuEwYc+0W7w0dIwwGivxZ2qBQCfefMH
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Comment from Peter O on 2008-07-01

2008-07-01T07:25:54Z

Well I guess you tried to make things clear but I ended up still pretty confused & with more questions:
1) Why bother with an iso file in the first place since there is no compression.
2) Surely this just introduces unnecessary steps in the viewing process, who wants to waste time burning CD's when HD's are now so cheap & very large.
3) When/if you burn to CD do you choose "burn a data file" or "burn an iso file".
4) Now just one more time: I start with an iso file, wish to use it, but must first burn to CD, which duplicates what I had to start with, So how do I view the CD & why will I be able to use now when I could not the original.
Totally confused even after re-reading your article. No doubt I'm tghick but computers are supposed to be friendly right not dinosours.

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Comment from Rab on 2008-06-21

2008-06-21T22:23:12Z

I'm new to download and have just downloaded a large ISO file (music). I've used IDM as my download and have opened the files with WinRAR. I read your advise here and downloaded daemon tools and it has created an F drive but Win RAR won't send it to the Daemon F drive. Sorry guys this is probably elementary for you but I could use the help. The whole ISO has not been downloaded - I'm still have to download 2 more file - could this be the reason?

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Comment from barry webb on 2008-06-15

2008-06-16T03:32:28Z

I was recomended PowerISO and it seems to work fine. although I have only used it a couple of times they have a free version you can try.

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Comment from Michael Grissom on 2008-05-28

2008-05-29T03:13:39Z

I took the advise of Bob L. above and the program he recommended worked flawlessly in Vista. I no longer have to burn ISO files onto a DVD/CD on order to install them from that DVD/CD back onto the same computer and this virtual DVD/CD program is a lot faster than the real (mechanical) thing. Thanks Bob!

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Comment from David on 2007-12-12

2007-12-12T20:20:45Z

yeah, daemon tools is probably the best that I've seen, it has most copy-protection system emulations too.

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Comment from Bob L on 2007-12-08

2007-12-08T10:27:04Z

daemon tools is the free program I use to mount .iso images as a virtual drive. It assigns a drive letter and it's as if you had the original CD in the drive. Works flawlessly for me.

http://filehippo.com/download_daemon_tools/

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Comment from Ken B on 2007-12-06

2007-12-06T18:17:10Z

Microsoft has a "Virtual CD" driver available:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4402.html

Run it, and it installs a new drive letter, onto which you can mount and unmount ISO files.

(Note: this is the only one I've used, so I can't compare it to any others. Also, it only claims to be for XP, so I don't know if it works for Vista. However, it does the job for me, no fuss, no muss.)

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