How to open ISO, CUE, CCD and NRG files without burning a CD or a DVD?

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This is a very old tip, but a very good one that not enough people knows about - when you don’t want to waste a blank CD or a DVD just to check if what you’ve downloaded works, or if you just want to test your disk image before burning it, Daemon Tools lets you create up to four virtual CD/DVD drives and assign the right file for the drive. The process is called mounting images and it’s really easy to do it.

How to Use Daemon Tools?

1. Download Daemon Tools program - although the new 4.x version deals with almost all protections and has some addons you can install, I still prefer the old version 3.47 as the new version comes with a 3d party advertising application (you can choose not to install it, it’s not spyware).

2. Install it.

3. Start it.

4. Right click on the new Daemon icon on the task bar.

5. Go to “Virtual CD/DVD-ROM” -> Set number of devices -> Choose your desired number of virtual drives -> Please wait.

6. Go to “Virtual CD/DVD-ROM” -> Device 0 [G:] No Media -> Mount Image -> Browse to the directory where you hold the image file (ISO, CUE, CCD, NRG, BWT, CDI, B5T, MDS, PDI) -> Please wait.

7. That’s it! You now have a new drive called G: and it contains all the files in the original image file and you can use the drive as you would have used a burned CD or DVD.

8. If you want to cancel the mounting, just select the “Unmount all drives” option under the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM menu.

Read more about disk images on Wikipedia.

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14 Responses to “How to open ISO, CUE, CCD and NRG files without burning a CD or a DVD?”

трудовой кодекс рф 2009 комментарии on October 2nd, 2009 7:55 am

Ну почему вы решили вот так? Читаю, как можно прояснить данную тему.
ls on February 2nd, 2010 2:34 am

Do Deaman tools work on mac?????????????¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
Dora on June 5th, 2010 7:06 am

Perfect! It worked! 10x.
Ravindra on September 14th, 2010 3:34 am

thanks lot my dear
Vwow on September 24th, 2010 5:15 am

Thank you so much! Great solution!
dn5 on December 19th, 2010 7:51 am

*Thanks man, works perfect :*

-dn5
Тайланд on February 5th, 2011 10:02 am

thanks! best program
Manish on June 23rd, 2011 8:35 am

Perfect!!! thanx!!!!!
Oliver on August 26th, 2011 12:21 pm

Thank You It worked perfect. Opening a NRG file.
ROJAK on September 16th, 2011 5:40 pm

I was looking for software to run iso file without burn CD/DVD. Thank u for sharing this.
eveth on October 16th, 2011 6:41 am

this is very great,

i hev my .nrg file,

and i almost lost my mind looking for something that could get my ridness out of this,

because i myseelf had a bad time looking for a program that could let my .nrg file read. . .

not until i found this,

this is program answer my big problem. . .

thnx alot man. . .
Sameer Basha on January 8th, 2012 1:17 am

thanx bro.
justin on January 27th, 2012 5:06 am

i don’t know how to open that nrg file
it isn’t working
if i select the file and put it into drag&drop and decompress
it isn’t working

it says: file type is not support
please help

many thanxx
justin on January 27th, 2012 5:08 am

o yeah and the problem is
if i press right mouse button in the taskbar
on the ADL COMPRESSOR i only got 3 options
open the program
or close :S

any other idea’s?
please help i want to play this game again..