Instruction
To install the game from the image, you will need a special program called Daemon Tools. This program emulates " virtual drive", in which and is mounted " virtual disk". The Daemon Tools program can be found at the link http://www.cwer.ru/sphinx?s=Daemon+Tools, as well as on the official website of the program: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/rus/home. The program has two versions: paid and free. It makes no sense to buy a paid one for installation and launch, since the free version copes with this task quite well. Installing the program takes a few and does not require special options.
After installation, the program starts to "live" in the system tray. Click on it right click mouse and in the menu that appears, select the "Emulation" button. In the drop-down menu, click on the line "All options are enabled." The program is ready to go. Now, if you enter the "My Computer" folder, then in addition to the physical drives installed in the system, you can see one or more virtual drives.
Left-click on the icon on the item of the form "Drive 0: Empty". After that, an explorer window should appear, in which you need to find the previously downloaded disk image file with the game. These files may have a regular CD after autorun. Or the contents of the disk will be displayed as in the Explorer window. To start the game, you just need to find a file called Setup. Further installation of the game will occur as in the case of an ordinary disk.
Often, movies and games downloaded from the Internet are in the form of disk images. For full-fledged work with this way, you need to perform a few simple steps.
Instruction
After the computer boots up, you will see that a new one has appeared in the system. optical disc. This is the Daemon Tools virtual disk.
To load a disk image, right-click on the program icon in the taskbar (it looks like a small copy of the illustration for this article), select "virtual drives", then your virtual drive and "mount image".
In the window that opens, select the disk image and click "open".
Now you can go through "my computer" to the virtual disk with the image as if it were a regular optical disk in your drive.
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note
Some disk images will require other programs, for example - Alcohol 120%
Today, such a format of games as ".iso" is widespread on the Internet. For experienced players, installing such games does not cause any difficulties, but for beginners, such an action turns into a real puzzle.
You will need
- The image of the game, the program "Daemon Tools"
Instruction
Installing the Daemon Tools program. For this program, you just need to run its installation file. During installation, you need to specify a location and also accept the terms of the user agreement. When installing the program, pay attention to the item " Extra optionsβ, which is usually hidden under the arrows. By clicking on this arrow, mark the parameters that you want to install in parallel with the program. After it has been completed, you can proceed to mount.
Launch the "Daemon Tools" program through the appropriate icon. Next, right-click on the program shortcut, which will be located near the clock, on the right side of the taskbar. In the menu that opens, select "Mount Image". Next, select the virtual drive on which you will mount the image and click on the "Download image" button. After that, through the loading window, find the game file ".iso", selecting it, click OK. Now you should wait a bit. The game installation will start in automatic mode, you will only need to specify the installation path and wait for it to finish. If nothing happens, open the "My Computer" folder and double-click on the game shortcut that appears in it.
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Computer games- This is sometimes a very exciting activity. But sometimes it happens when the disc with the game is not yours, and you need to give it away. In this case, you can make a virtual copy of the disk, which will be only yours. Disk images are convenient when the original is not at hand, but it is very necessary. most popular and convenient program for this is Alcohol 120%.
You will need
- 1. A program for burning discs (in our case, Alcohol 120%)
- 2. The disc with the game from which you will create the image.
Instruction
Sometimes licensed ones use protection against piracy (for example, StarForce). To make such a disc at the bottom of the Disc Creation Wizard window, select the mode according to the type of protection. If there is no protection, the "data type" field must be set to user mode.
In the "Reading options" tab, select the desired name of the game image and the place where the program should save it when the recording is completed.
If there are scratches on the disk, in the same tab there should be a checkmark next to the "Quick skip read errors" option. The option is enabled by default.
Check all the options above. If everything is set up correctly, click "Start". After about 5-10 minutes, the image of the game will be ready.
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To open the resulting image, go to the "Virtual Disk" section of the Alcohol 120% program. Opposite the "number of virtual drives" parameter, select "1". After that, a virtual drive will appear in the main menu, where you can mount the necessary image.
The high pace of modern scientific and technological progress leads to the constant emergence of new models various devices. This also applies to the field of equipment for personal computers. Every few years, new, more convenient devices are developed, and the old ones fall into disuse. So ZIP drives disappeared, disk drives were replaced by card readers. However, the old software may still require access to certain types of devices in order to function. In the absence of such a device on the computer, there is nothing left but to emulate the disk.
You will need
- Internet connection. Modern browser. Administrator rights in Windows.
Instruction
Download the free Virtual Floppy Drive. open http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/. Click on the "Download" button. Wait for the download process to start. Select, if necessary, a folder to save the file. Wait for the download process to finish.
Install Virtual programs floppy drive. To do this, create a folder where the program files will be located and copy all the files from the temporary directory to it, except for the files copying.txt, readme.txt and readmej.txt. Run the vfdwin.exe file. Go to the "Driver" tab of the main program window. Click the "Install" button. Delete the temporary folder with all its contents.
Emulate disk. On the "Driver" tab of the main program window, click the "Start" button. Switch to the "Drive0" tab and click the "Open/Create" button. If there is an image file that you want to use as the contents of the emulated disk, select it by clicking the "Browse" button. If you want to emulate a disk without initial data filling, select its size in the "Media type" list. Click the "Create" button.
Assign an access letter to the emulated drive. Press the "Change" button next to "Drive letter". In the drop-down list of the dialog that appears, select the letter. Click the "OK" button. The emulated drive will appear in the list of disk drives on your computer. It will be possible to work with it as with a conventional drive.
note
If you create an emulated disk in memory, the data written to it will be lost on reboot.
Useful advice
For more convenient use of the program, you can create a shortcut to the vfdwin.exe file and place it on the desktop or in the panel quick launch. To enable the mode automatic download driver during system startup, switch to the "Driver" tab, set the "Start type" switch to "Auto" and click the "Apply" button.
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- Setting up the DeSmuMe emulator
A virtual disk is created using special programs. To mount this or that image on it, you must first download and mount it, and it will work exactly like a real one physical disk.
You will need
- - a computer with Internet access;
- - disk emulation program.
Instruction
Download the game to your computer. Now games are laid out for download in .iso format - a disk image that can be mounted. Save it in the required folder.
Go to site http://www.daemon-tools.cc/rus/downloads. Disk emulation programs are available for download here. For example, the DAEMON Tools Lite program. It allows you to create images in iso, *.mds/*.mdf and *.mdx formats, password protect images, compress them, and manage the image catalog. This program can create a virtual drive, if necessary, four at a time.
Check if it supports the image format you need: *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ape/*.cue *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.ccd, * .cdi, *.bin/*.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz. If applicable, click on the "Download" button. You will be redirected to a page with detailed description program, for downloading go to the link Download.
Run the installer after downloading, install the program on your computer. Reload operating system. Launch Deamon Tools Lite from the shortcut on the quick launch bar. Right-click on the program icon in the tray, select the "Create drive" command and select the desired number of drives, for example, if you have two images in the game folder, then it's better to mount two drives at the same time.
Next, to emulate a disc with the game, right-click on the program's shortcut, select the "Mount" command. Next, select the virtual drive to mount, a file selection window will open, go to the game folder, select the desired image, click "Open". The disk will be mounted and will start immediately. After that, proceed to install the game from the virtual disk.
Use similar disk emulation programs to install the game, for example, Alcohol 120%, VirtualDrive.
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- how to install a program using virtual disk
Some types of files saved in special formats can only be opened by mounting their images on a virtual disk. To open this kind of disks, you need to perform a number of operations using an emulator.
Instruction
Formerly a virtual disk with the right program, -, audio file, you need, firstly, this virtual one, and secondly, mount the program or file you need in the form of an image on it. Probably the most common and easy-to-use program used for these purposes is Alcohol 120%.
Specify in this new window the number of virtual disks that you need (by the number of programs or files), and click the "OK" button. You will see a shortcut to the new virtual disk (if you created one disk) under the name "DVD drive (V :)" on the working field of the "My Computer" folder.
On the virtual disk, mount the file image, which is very important to create without errors. To do this, in the main window running program Alcohol 120%, select the "Image Creation" operation with the mouse cursor in the left vertical panel. Click on her. A new functional window will appear.
Then click on the "Next" command button in the new window. In the next window, see if you have enough space to place the image on the desired local disk(C:, D: or others). Select the drive or folder where to copy, and click on the "Start" button located at the bottom of the window. The image will be ready after some time.
Next, open the file image of a certain format (for example, iso, mdf, mds, ccd, etc.) that you want to open by mounting it on a virtual disk as follows: hover over the icon of the created virtual disk, right-click on it, select in the opened context menu"Mount image" option. Next, click on the "Open" item and select the image you need by hovering over it and the "Open" command in the window that appears.
After that, the file image you have chosen is automatically mounted on a virtual disk and becomes available for launch.
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Good day.
There are hundreds of different games available on the net. Some of these games are distributed in images (which still need to be able to open and install from them :)) .
Image formats can be very different: mdf/mds, iso, nrg, ccd, etc. For many users who encounter such files for the first time, installing games and applications from them is a whole problem.
In this short article, I will look at a simple and fast way installing applications (including games) from images. And so, go ahead!
1) What do you need to get started..?
1) One of the utilities for working with images. The most popular and also free is Daemon Tools. It supports a large number of images (at least all the most popular ones for sure), it is easy to work with and there are practically no errors. In general, you can choose any program from those presented by me in this article:.
2) Setting up the Daemon Tools utility
After you download any image file, it will not be recognized by the system and will be a regular faceless file that Windows has no idea what to do with. See screenshot below.
What is this file? Like a game π
Note! At Daemon Tools there are several different versions (like most other programs): there are paid options, there are free ones. To begin with, most will suffice and free version. Download and run the installation.
By the way, which is undoubtedly pleasing, the program has support for the Russian language, and not only in the installation menu, but also in the program menu!
Note! Some installation steps and descriptions are subject to change after the article is published. Tracking in real time all those changes in the program that developers make is unrealistic. But the installation principle is the same.
Installing games from images
Method number 1
After the program is installed, it is recommended to restart the computer. Now if you enter the folder with the downloaded image, you will see that Windows recognizes the file and offers to run it. Double-click on the file with the MDS extension (if you don't see the extensions, enable them, ) - the program will automatically mount your image!
The file is recognized and can be opened! Medal of Honor - Pacific Assault
You will have several CD drives in front of you: one is your real one (if you have one), and the second is a virtual one that will be used by the Daemon Tools program.
Game cover
In my case, the installer program started on its own and offered to install the game ....
Installing the game
Method number 2
If automatically Daemon Tools does not want to open the image (or cannot) - then we will do it manually!
To do this, run the program and add a virtual drive (everything is illustrated in the screenshot below):
- on the left in the menu there is a link "Add a drive" - ββclick it;
- Virtual drive - select DT;
- DVD region - you can not change and leave as default;
- Mount - to the drive, you can set any drive letter (in my case, the letter "F:");
- The last step is to click the Add Drive button at the bottom of the window.
How to run ISO file? Create this file, mount to a virtual drive personal computer or you can extract all the information from it by various methods
ISO- special file, containing an absolute copy or image of the information on the optical disc. This type format is often used for backup duplication of optical discs or for delegation large sets files written to CD or DVD.
How to run an ISO image file?
To run a file ISO image there is only one way - use 2 types of utilities are used to unpack images - archivers and emulators.
Archivers is a type of software that interacts with archive components. Their main task is to compress information or combine a huge number of different files into one so that it is easier to transfer them, while reducing the amount of information without losing data. These are "7Zip", "WinRar" and others.
Emulators (drives) are needed not to interact with the files inside the images, but to generate virtual disks and attach ISO files to them instead of standard storage media. With their help, you cannot edit the information inside them.
Daiemon Tooles- professional, by personal functions, software for generating disk images and emulating virtual drives using various methods protection. Allows you to generate various popular images from all types of discs with the ability to protect the code and compression.
This program generates up to four different virtual drives in total, which function like physical counterparts, only much faster. A great thing for devices that do not have an optical drive.
Alcohol
- a serious utility for recording all kinds of disc formats and generating virtual drives on a PC, as well as emulating information from an optical disc. This development is capable of writing a disk image with information, sound and video information to a hard drive, and then opening access to it to other applications, as if the desired optical disk was actually inserted into the drive. This is very important for games and programs that can only be run from a disc.
This is a high-quality utility for generating, correcting and transforming various types of disk images. Interacts with more than 35 various extensions. Also, the software can emulate an optical drive, which allows you to run images even on devices without drives. And if it is available, the information can be saved to empty disks.
With regards to the possibilities, in addition to performing images of optical discs, UltraISO can also generate images of external media and even HDD. Comfortable, because inside the resulting archive, if necessary, there is a function to add, change and delete various components without having to open them. Still images can be used as additional virtual disks.
7zip
An excellent archiver for Windows, the advantages include speed, support for all available formats and an excellent compression ratio. The application is embedded in the system explorer. There is a version for the console line and the FAR Manager extension, which allows you to work with archives without third-party archivers.
Without this well-known, comfortable and easy-to-use archiver, it is impossible to imagine everyday work with various archives. Interacts with many archive extensions, including: BZ2, ZIP, 7Z, ACE and others.
Among the colossal list of program features, it is worth noting the ability to restore corrupted and damaged archives, generate multi-volume and self-extracting archives, work with encrypted and encoded archives, as well as the ability to compress an almost unlimited number of files.
Windows Explorer (Windows 8.1 and 10 only)
Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced the ability to open ISO files directly through File Explorer. Windows 10 also has given function. Can easily run and burn ISO files without installation additional programs, which is very convenient and simplifies the task.
It is enough to find and select in the system explorer desired file with the given extension and open it. If there are third-party emulators and archivers, then you can open through them - the explorer will not interfere.
The user's computer must have at least 2 emulators or archivers, since some of them may not be able to cope with various types files and volumes of internal data and consumption.
Currently, it is possible to successfully replace any CD or DVD disc his virtual image. However, some do not experienced users working with disk images can cause some difficulty. In fact, there is nothing difficult in using images, it is enough to resort to help special program. To open a disk image on a computer, you will need:
β Computer (Order from us);
- One of the following programs: Ultra Iso, Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools;
- Disk image.
Instruction
- Ultra ISO
The most common disk imaging software is UltraIso. First of all, this program has earned its popularity due to its wide capabilities. It is able not only to run disk images, but also to make certain changes to them. To simply run the image through this program, you need to follow these steps:
After these steps, the disk image will be launched on the computer.
- Alcohol 120%
Currently, there are a lot of similar programs, the second place among applications for working with images is occupied by the Alcohol 120% application - this paid program but it has a free trial period. Install this application on the HDD and open it. Click on one of the available virtual drives, they are located at the bottom of the program, and click the "Mount image" command, specify the location of the disk image and confirm its use. The disk will be available in standard form.
- Daemon Tools
The third well-known program for such tasks is DaemonTools. Download the DaemonTools installation file and install the application. Reboot your operating system. The DaemonTools utility will start automatically when Windows startup and will be minimized to tray. Hover over the utility's tray icon and right-click, click "Virtual CD/DVD ROM" and click "Mount Image". Specify the location of the disk image and complete the procedure by clicking on the appropriate button. The image will be opened.
- operating room Windows system can recognize iso files as archive files. Never try to unpack such files, they are not archives, and the unpacking process may damage the structure of the file, and it may stop working.
Video: How to open a disk image
Today you will learn how to open an ISO file, as well as how to install it. Let's start with definitions. So what is an ISO file? In simple terms, files of this extension are a place to store images of CDs and DVDs.
For example, you have a disk whose contents you want to save, but no clean disk for transfer. In this case, you save the disk image in ISO format and keep it until you copy it to a physical disk.
How to open ISO file
Many programs are used to open this type of file: Daemon Tools, UltraISO, IsoBuster, MagicISO, Alcohol 120%. However, the UltraISO utility seems to us the most convenient, it is really simple and reliable.
- Find the program at official resource- http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/download.htm
- Download, unpack the archive and use it.
- After unpacking, we find the UltraISO.exe file and run it.
The window in front of you will look like this ( latest version programs):
To open the file in the format you need, click "File -> Open" and select the file you need. That's all, now you can perform any operations with the iso file.
How to install an ISO file: run the Ultra ISO program. After that, we need to make sure that the program has created a virtual drive. To do this, open Options, then Settings, then Virtual Drive.
If it turns out that you do not have it, then in the Number of devices field we drive in 1, we drive in other parameters and click - OK. Then click on the "Mount to virtual drive" button. You will find it by this icon - . After clicking on this button, you will see a window in which you will need to click "Mount". Everything, the installation has begun. If you want to delete the image, then select "Unmount" or "Unmount" the virtual drive.
After the installation is completed, the virtual launch window will be displayed on the screen. For example, you created an image of a video converter, then you will see a window with the installation of the program. This means that you did everything right. Congratulations!