Seeing What a .bin file is

dave81 · #1 26-01-2003, 04:35

What program lets me see what the .Bin file really is?

(I want to see what files are in this .bin or .iso or .img file).

podunkviller · #2 27-01-2003, 23:37

another possibility is just checking the original cd that you created the bin from

dave81 · #3 28-01-2003, 10:54

How do you use iso buster to see what the .bin file is.

and does it show you what it would look like on a cd, with all the directories and files.

thanks for replying.

gh0sth@cker · #4 28-01-2003, 12:00

Try reading it's instructions or readme files. For a good GUI program there's WinISO.
You could also mount the image onto a virtual drive by using Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools - this will create a "virtual" cd-drive in My Computer and the image will be loaded onto it - it will act just as if the cd was loaded into a cd-rom (so you cannot edit it directly by mounting)

checkmate · #5 04-02-2003, 09:11

One trick is to open the bin file with note pad which then lets you see exactly what it is, same goes for cue files as well.

It's very usefull to do this when for example you have a cue and bin file for a program or game and when you load the cue file
into cdrwin it comes up with an error like "file not found".

Simply open them both up with note pad and you can make sure
that they both read the same as to drive,directory, title etc,

eg c:\program files\dave81.cue

c:\program files\dave81.bin

You can of course rename the files to anything you want if need be as long as they read the same like above.

checkmate · #6 04-02-2003, 12:38

Second and probably nearer to what you want to know is use
winiso.

I would do a copy and paste of the original bin to another folder,
rename the bin file

eg c:\?????.bin to c:\?????.iso

right click and then open the file and all the contents will be revealed from within the winiso program.

The copy and paste is so you can leave the original bin file unchanged.