Iso file

What is an .ISO file?

An "iso" file is just a disk image.

There are two ways to deal with a disk image: put it on a disk, or make it look like you put it on a disk.

An iso file contains the image of a disk. That means it contains all the files and folders that were on that disk, much like a zip or cab file contains a collection of files and folders. The real difference is that an iso is a byte-for-byte copy of the low-level data actually stored on a disk.

There's nothing about the iso format that actually knows about files, folders or formats. It's just the raw data from the disk. Now, naturally that raw data, if interpreted correctly, may know about files, folders and format. But, like a disk, the operating system has to look, see what format was used (things like FAT32, NTFS and the like), and interpret the contents of the iso file as if it were reading the raw data from an actual disk.

"The easiest way to think of an iso file is more like a 'zip' or 'cab' file, only without the compression."There are a few ways to deal with iso files.

How To Open .ISO using Winrar?

1. Downloading WinRAR.

Go to www.rarlab.com and download WinRAR 3.71 to your disk. This will be a file with a name such as wrar371.exe.

2. Install WinRAR.

Run the .EXE program you downloaded. In the setup, make certain that the checkbox for .ISO files is checked. I recommend that you UNcheck the checkbox for .ZIP files; let Windows handle that one. The install will put a new item in your All Programs menu.

3. Run WinRAR.

Click Start-All Programs-WinRAR-WinRAR.

4. Open the .iso File

In WinRAR, open the .ISO file from the folder in which it was placed:

5. Extract the File Tree.

Click-drag the ENGLISH folder out of WinRAR to your disk, either to the desktop or to a new, empty folder that you can find easily. The extraction process may take a couple of minutes.

6. Close WinRAR.