How Do I Use or Open Bin, Cue, or ISO Files?

Contributed by davak

September 19, 2004

Tagged: Windows

People frequently get confused regarding these file types. Here’s how to use these files.

These file extensions are commonly used to show that a file is an image of a CD or DVD.

The most simple way to access these files is to use your CD or DVD Burner to burn them to a disk. Nero is a common program that is used to burn bin/cue files to hard media.

One really nice thing to do is to treat these files as a virtual CD or DVD without ever burning them. Daemon Tools is one program that is often used to do this. Microsoft now has a free program that does this as well.

The other place that *.bin files are frequently used are in emulation software. Gaming roms are often stored in compressed files full of bin files. If you have a zip file full of *.bin files, try Mame or some similiar emulator.

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Anonymous 4 years ago 1 point
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Another tool for <span style="text-decoration:underline">extracting</span> files from cd images is cdmage:

http://cdmage.cjb.net/

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lucid artist 3 years ago 1 point
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i downloaded the microsoft download , virtualcd. i followed the read me. however how do i use it to use a bin or cue? which do i mount as the disk in the virual drive. need a little help

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Anonymous 3 years ago 1 point
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is there anything to use with win98

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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<ul id="quote"><h6>lucid artist wrote:</h6>i downloaded the microsoft download , virtualcd. i followed the read me. however how do i use it to use a bin or cue? which do i mount as the disk in the virual drive. need a little help</ul>

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torchin 2 years ago 1 point
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Hey there,

I highly recomend Daemon Tools - it is by far the easiest to use. It creates an artifical drive letter, and you can open nearly any bin/iso/cue file. It mounts the file image as a drive, and you can explore it at will.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/

I think they have previous windows versions, though I've honestly not checked.

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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true

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irrka 2 years ago 1 point
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Hi. I downloaded a movie that was in cue bin format. Used Daemon to mount the first CD part which worked fine, but when i went to get the second half i only got the audio but not the video part. anybody knows what to do with that?
thanks!

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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<ul id="quote"><h6>torchin wrote:</h6>Hey there,

I highly recomend Daemon Tools - it is by far the easiest to use. It creates an artifical drive letter, and you can open nearly any bin/iso/cue file. It mounts the file image as a drive, and you can explore it at will.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/

I think they have previous windows versions, though I've honestly not checked.</ul>
Alcohol 120% is also a very easy to use tool.

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tilted 2 years ago 1 point
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so daemon tools will open .bin files?

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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yes it will

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Another tool for <span style="text-decoration:underline">extracting</span> files from cd images is cdmage:

http://cdmage.cjb.net/</ul>

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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Currently using DaemonTools to open a .cue file (Hustle & Flow the movie) and I mount the image from my desktop using E: drive and nothing happens.... other than 4 folders titled EXT, SEGMENT, MPGEAV, VCD which all have files I can not open or are recognized by my pc 6 .VCD files and 2 .DAT files

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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These maybe really stupid questions but i'm bout to go loopy tryin to figure it out on my own.....I Have Alcohol 120 and Nero Ultra 6/vision express 3. I can't get nero to burn my bin/cue files. I have used this before with vcd/svcd and it worked well now i am tryin to burn to dvdr. Can i not do this with Alcohol? My nero gives errors that file is not recognized. When i try to burn with nero using avi or mpg it also gives that error. I tried to burn vob file using nero it gives error that it can't read the gog or oggs what ever they are i haven't a clue. Is my system missing codecs or something? Before i forget, on somethings my alcohol seems like it's goin to work but then asks for a blank disc, i make sure one is in and it reconizes there is an empty dvd but still does nothing....I have tried everything i know PLEEEAAASSSSE help. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!! :cry: trixi

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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i downloaded alchohol and it says it will install scsi pass through direct sptd layer on my computer and its not compatible with kernal debuggers, should i be worried, bcuz ive heard it will mess with the kernal and mess things up?

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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Well damon tools and alcohol 120 are great programs for there respective purposes but in all actuality to simply open an iso file or other such as mentioned in the begining of this post, simply use winrar!!!! :twisted:

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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I use MagicDisc to mount iso image or create iso image. It is freeware and works great. MagicISO can also do that, It is a good iso creator.
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdis...

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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<ul id="quote"><h6>epitek wrote:</h6>Currently using DaemonTools to open a .cue file (Hustle & Flow the movie) and I mount the image from my desktop using E: drive and nothing happens.... other than 4 folders titled EXT, SEGMENT, MPGEAV, VCD which all have files I can not open or are recognized by my pc 6 .VCD files and 2 .DAT files</ul>

You can usually open the MPGEAV or VCD in win.media, but if not try winamp
it should work, but if it doesn't, your comps messed up.

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Anonymous 2 years ago 1 point
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i'm having the same problem,i'm using DaemonTools to open a .cue file for a movie and I mount the image but nothin happen but 4 files with the extensions EXT, SEGMENT, MPGEAV, VCD which i cannot open plz help.

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Hack_Vista 2 years ago 1 point
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You are looking at a video DVD. You just need a program that will played a mounted DVD.

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Anonymous 1 year ago 1 point
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This will be helpful8) :

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=bin+iso+%2B+fr...

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Anonymous 1 year ago 1 point
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I recently downloaded a game - it says that it's an iso file, but I can't open it using MagicIso or PowerIso. I only needed something to extract the files in the image, but I tried to mount it too. I used Daemon Tools and I also tried a small program for windows, but in each case it apears an error message with the title "Disk is not formatted" and it says "WIndows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows". There is also a dll file in the downloaded folder - I guess it's for the installed game, but I replaced it anyway in system32 folder. Still not working. Please help :cry:

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