ISO files are very common on the Internet, but when downloading such a file, many people have a question about how and how to open an ISO file on a computer. In this format, the younger generation most often downloads disc images of games from various file hosting services and torrents. You won't be able to open the ISO file in Windows just like that, as this requires a special program. In this article, we will look at the most common ways and programs with which an ISO disc image can be opened, unpacked or burned to a DVD disc, having received a copy of the original disc.
What is an ISO file?
An ISO file is a CD or DVD image file created by special programs, which also has the extension ".iso". An ISO disc image is a complete copy of an optical media, and contains all the tracks on the disc, preserving their layout structure and with all files. Such technologies allow the use of virtually created in the system optical media based on the ISO file on a par with the original media, even with some copy protection on the CD or DVD.
ISO files are very often used to distribute copies of CD and DVD discs over the Internet. After downloading a disc image of a game or program to your computer, you can easily create a duplicate for yourself by burning the ISO image to a DVD or CD. Moreover, it will be possible to record it only on the type of media from which the disk image was created. This means that a disc image created from a DVD can only be burned to a DVD, the same with CDs.
How to open ISO file on Windows of different versions?
In the Windows operating system itself, there have never been any internal tools for working with ISO files before. In Windows XP there were no tools at all, but in versions of Windows 7 and 8 there is a built-in utility for burning an ISO disk image to optical media. Without additional programs, you will not be able to view the contents of the ISO file in these versions of the operating system. The only option is to burn the disc image to a DVDRW disc and insert it into your computer's optical drive.
In Windows 10, the functionality for working with ISO files is already much better. When you right-click on the ISO file image in the explorer, two items "Connect" and "Burn disc image" are already available in the context menu. In the first case, the disk image is connected to a virtual drive, in the second case, it is simply written to an optical medium. 
There are also various special programs for working with ISO files, which will be discussed below.
Programs to open ISO files
Different ways to open ISO files are discussed depending on what needs to be done with the disc image. If you need to install an ISO game file or some program, it is convenient to use a program for emulating images. With its help, you can mount an ISO image into a virtual drive and immediately use it as an original medium. If you need to unzip the ISO file to your hard drive and access the attached files, you can use the WinRAR or 7-Zip archiver.
Special programs for the ISO disk image file
Among the special programs for ISO files there are those that can only create an ISO and write an image to a disc, and those that can mount an ISO image in Windows, creating a virtual drive on the system.
Free software to create and burn ISO:
CDBurnerXP https://cdburnerxp.se/ru/download
BurnAware Free http://www.burnaware.com/download.html
ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Programs for creating a virtual drive and mounting ISO:
DAEMON Tools Lite(free) https://www.daemon-tools.cc/rus/products/dtLite
UltraISO(paid) https://www.ezbsystems.com/download.htm
Alcohol 120%(full) http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/downloadtrial.php
How to open an iso file with DAEMON Tools Lite
DAEMON Tools Lite is one of the most popular free programs that users use to mount images to virtual drives. The program allows you to work with many formats of disk images and at the same time can create a huge number of virtual drives in the Windows operating system. In addition, she herself can create an ISO image of a disc from an original CD or DVD media.
Now the DAEMON Tools Lite application has a lot of ads built in and almost all antiviruses and firewalls block its installation and even downloading. For this reason, you have to download it from other resources, and not from the official site.
After installing the program, the program icon appears in the Windows taskbar, by clicking on which you can enter the virtual drives control menu. Through it, you can very quickly connect or disconnect an ISO file. You can also launch a full-fledged application through a shortcut on the desktop, where much more settings will be available for working with virtual drives.
After installing DAEMON Tools Lite, one virtual drive is automatically created in the system, immediately ready for use. To connect an ISO disk image to it in a quick way, you need to left-click on the program icon in the tray, select a virtual drive from the list, and find the ISO image you want to connect through Windows Explorer.
If you right-click on the tray icon, the control and settings menu will appear.
To gain access to more settings, it is better to launch a full-fledged application, in which, when you hover over each menu item, you can see a hint.
How to unpack an ISO file with an archiver?
An ISO file is essentially an archive of files, and many archivers recognize this format and can easily unpack an ISO file to a computer's hard drive as a regular archive. After such unpacking, all ISO image files become available for use, as if they were copied from the original media to the computer.
Popular archivers:
WinRAR http://www.win-rar.ru/download/
7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
How to open an iso file with WinRAR
In fact, there are many more archivers that can open an ISO file, but the most popular of them are WinRAR and 7-Zip. We will consider unpacking an ISO archive using the WinRAR archiver as the most installed one. This archiver immediately perceives ISO files as archives, if in its association settings a checkmark is set in front of the ISO format.
Most of the computer games that gamers download from the Internet in order not to pay for licensed versions are distributed in special images. These images emulate the contents of the game disc. Images were especially relevant at a time when physical media were very popular. Let's figure out how to install a game from an ISO file, as this knowledge can be useful to any gamer who wants to try an old game nowadays.
What it is?
First, let's figure out what ISO files are. This extension is a CD image that contains all the contents of the physical media. The ISO image requires a virtual drive on your computer. The system treats the ISO as a normal disc inserted in a DVD or CD drive. To work correctly with images, we need third-party software. Opening ISO files is possible through:
- Daemon Tools.
- Alcohol.
- UltraISO and others.
You can find a whole list of similar programs, but their functionality is extremely similar, so we will analyze it using the example of basic and popular utilities. So, let's look at the instructions on how to install the game from an ISO file.
What is required?
For the image to work correctly, you will need the virtual drive itself. You download the image from the Internet (usually ISO games can be found in huge numbers on torrent trackers and similar resources). The program is installed from the official website of the developers, and through it a virtual drive is created.
Daemon tools
In the browser, open the link to the official website of the program developers. On the page, click the "Download" button. You can choose one of the options - advanced, simple and professional. For mounting files into a virtual drive, the regular version of the software is also suitable. Download DAEMON Tools Lite. If you like the functionality of the program, then you can purchase it or activate it using a pirate crack.
Run the executable file and select "Free license". Then follow the installation instructions. Wait for the download and installation to finish. After launching the program, a corresponding icon will appear in the tray on the desktop. Click on it with the right mouse button to open the menu with drives. Click on one of the virtual disks and select the folder on the hard drive where the ISO image is located. After the file is mounted, go to "My Computer" and open the drive with the appropriate name. If the image provides autorun, then you will immediately proceed to the installation of the game.
Another option for reading ISO files in DAEMON Tools. Open the program using the shortcut on your desktop and click on "File" - "Open". In the window, find the folder with the ISO and click on the "Open" button again. Next, you will see the contents of the image in the main window. At the bottom of the program, select a virtual drive and click on the "Mount" button.
Now you know how to install a game from an ISO file using DAEMON Tools. Moving on.
Alcohol 120%
You can download a trial version of the software on the developer site. After installation, you need to do the following:
- On the left side, find the button "Search images" and click on it. The program will automatically add all ISO and other supported formats to the list, which is very convenient and saves time on searching hard disk directories.
- At the bottom, select the required virtual drive and double-click on it with the left mouse button.
- Ready! Now it remains to open the contents of the drive and install the game from the ISO file.
In addition to installing games, with the help of Alcohol, you can also perform many other operations. For example, create your own images, burn them to physical media, create bootable USB drives, and so on. We recommend using this utility in your daily activities when working with disks and flash drives. You can also purchase a licensed version. However, a hacked copy or a trial version is also suitable for installing games.
UltraISO
The simplest program of all. Let's figure out how to start the game from an ISO file through this utility:
- Download and install the application from the site.
- In the main window, click "File" - "Open".
- Choose a game image.
- Press the F6 key to open the menu.
- In the window select the required virtual drive and click "Mount".
With all the programs described, you can easily install games from ISO files to your computer. Choose the utility that you like best in terms of functionality and management in order to mount images as conveniently and quickly as possible!
Hello dear readers.
Previously, computer users could install new applications and programs on their device using only CD-ROMs. Over time, the technology of creating a virtual image of a portable device appeared. This made the process much easier. Today, similar variants of data can be found on various sites on the Internet. Despite the fact that they are very popular, some do not know how to install a game from an iso image or any other application. The rest of the article will discuss just this.
Files with the * .iso extension are a virtual image of the data we need. It turns out that if you downloaded the game in this format, it means that you downloaded an exact copy of the disc in a single document to your device. In this case, the element itself usually consists of many components.
To install the desired application on the device, it is necessary to make the computer itself perceive the file as a simple disk. There are many programs for this.
Daemon tools( )
The most popular today can be safely called Daemon tools lite... The installer is downloaded from official site... You can find other versions here, but they are all trial and basically their functionality is not required to perform simple actions.
Once downloaded, the app needs to be installed. Then a virtual drive should appear on the computer, in which you need to place the disk. To do this, we perform several actions:
In general, there are no tricks here. Everything is simple and straightforward.
UltraISO( )
Another equally popular program can be safely called UltraISO... It also has all the necessary tools to install a game on a computer from a virtual disk without a plastic disk. To do this, you need to make several movements:
However, everything else can be repeated from the previous list, starting from the fifth point.
As mentioned earlier, there are many programs of this type. Apart from the previous two, Alcohol 120 or even Nero 7 can be safely attributed to them, because the latter has the tools we need. In addition, it interacts with images and Rufus... True, this application works with operating systems. And in general, it is more intended for creating bootable USB drives. Furius ISO Mount is also one of them, but the project is already in use on Linux.
From this article you will learn how to install the iso game and with what programs it is done.
They very often appear on the Internet in the form of an iso disk image. Not everyone knows what kind of format it is and how to work with it. I suggest you figure it out how to install an iso game on a computer and which program will help you with this.
First, let's take a look at the most commonly used disk image formats. Here's a short list: * .iso, * .mds, * .ccd, * .nrg, * .bwt, * .pdi, * .cue... There are also other formats that are less commonly used. The file, which is a disk image, looks like this: "file name.iso".
Now we answer the question "how to install the iso game?". First, you need program for creating a "virtual" drive... The application will help you with this. Daemon tools, which can be downloaded, for example, from the website www.daemon-tools.cc. 
Install the program (there are no special wisdom there) and in the "My Computer" tab, watch the appearance of a new device, which will be your "virtual" drive.
Secondly, mount the iso game image into the newly created drive. To do this, right-click on the Daemon Tools shortcut in the lower right corner of the desktop.
If the program icon is red, then select the "Emulation" item and in the menu that opens, click on the phrase "All options ON". 
Daemon Tools will turn green.
After that, right-click again on the program's shortcut and select "Virtual CD / DVD-Rom". In the drop-down menu click on "Drive 0 [X]: no data" and "Mount Image". 
Here the letter [X] stands for "virtual drive", it can be different. Find your iso-image of the game and click the "Open" button. Congratulations, you have mounted the disk image =).
Further autorun of the mounted game will follow if such is provided. To view the contents of the iso-image, you need to open the "virtual" drive, which is located in the "My Computer" tab. That's probably all.
Now you know how to install an iso game and can easily teach friends and acquaintances how to do it. It should be noted that other formats of disk images can be opened using the same method. Also note that you can create multiple drives on your computer ( Daemon Tools 4 supports 4 "virtual" drives).
Good afternoon, dear readers! If you don't know how to run the iso file, then you've come to the right place. In this article, I will show you how to install the iso file, and for example, I will be installing the game.
In my previous article, I showed you how to open an iso file. Well, today we will deal with the direct installation of the game packed in the iso file. The installation process is similar.
An iso file is a regular copy of an SD / DVD disc. In order to install it, we need the DAEMON Tools Lite program, you can download it on the official website. The program is absolutely free, and in my opinion it just needs to be installed on every computer.
With DAEMON Tools Lite, you can fully work with disk images of almost all formats. To be more precise, install games, create disc images, burn images to disc, etc.
How to install iso file using DAEMON Tools Lite
1. Open the DAEMON Tools Lite program, then click on the "Add Image" button.
2. In the window that opens, find the iso image on your computer, select it and click on the "Open" button. 
3. Now we see that our iso image has been added to the "Image Catalog" of the DAEMON Tools Lite program. Double click on it. 
4. In the window that opens, click on the "Run AUTORUN.EXE" link.
After these actions, the installation window of the game (program) packed in the iso file will open, or the automatic installation will begin. As you can see, it is very easy to install the iso file.
With me on this, I wish you all success!
