How do you open a bin file?

[Celtic Fox]

:error :error Can someone tell me how to open a bin file? I'm still fairly green in this department.

[Vladd44]

with nero

choose burn image, find the cue file (you need a cue file) and it will automatically set everythign up to burn.

or...downlaod cdrwin.

[Celtic Fox]

Thanx mate I will give it a shot:shy

[enferno 01]

Originally posted by Vladd44
:with nero

choose burn image, find the cue file (you need a cue file) and it will automatically set everythign up to burn.

or...downlaod cdrwin.

sorry to sound stupid but what's CDRWin do?

And what's Nero?

I just downloaded EDonkey so I'm a BIT confused..not really, VERY confused.

[Rickio]

Nero and CDrwin are cd burning applications. cdrwin is noted for being useful in copying certain copy protected cd's. Nero is noted for being a all around very good cd buring application.

They are also usefull if you download files which are in iso or bin /cue format. As they will burn the program onto a cd and then you can use that particular file.

winiso is another application which will help you to make a iso file into a file you can use on your hard-drive without having to burn it on a cd. I just mention it to help in case someone does download a iso and does not know how to use it.

[enferno 01]

Originally posted by Rickio
winiso is another application which will help you to make a iso file into a file you can use on your hard-drive without having to burn it on a cd. I just mention it to help in case someone does download a iso and does not know how to use it.

that's exactly what I was looking for, Thanks!!

[enferno 01]

So I burned my .CUE file, what do I do now?

[Rickio]

you don't burn a cue file, you write one and use it to burn a bin file.
If you don't have a cure file you need to write one.
You bin file should have come with a cue file.
Perhaps someone else here can tell you how to write a cue file. Or use winiso to open the file.

[Rickio]

sorry for the non helpful response, was busy and could not think fast.
If you burn your bin correctly it , you will now have a cd that works for whatever purpsose it was for, installing a program or a game whatever.
If it does not work and you cannot open it in explorer to see inside it, you probably did not do it right.
I have used bin and cue files but have not written cue files. Just used what was provided to me.
Do a search and try and learn how to write one. I have seen plenty of info on it on sites, but never bothered to learn as I did not need to. I tend to learn on a as needed basis as there is to much to learn as it is.

I think you can open and perhaps extract and run the program in your bin file with winiso.
Go download a copy, I saw a copy on sharereactor.com
you need to use edonkey to get it, or try and find it on whatever peer network your using. Just seach for winiso.

hope this helps.

[Rickio]

Just happened to see this a few moments after replying here. I found this at another forum.
Hope it helps you and anyone else who wants to learn.

How to burn ISOs
Published by ShareReactor.com
Written by: NorthernLights
Date of creation: 21.10.01
Article updated on: 04.11.01

(written by NorthernLights, edited by Gowenna) This small tutorial should help you burning the most common cd image formats available on donkey & other p2p networks using Nero Burning Rom and IsoBuster/WinIso. For some special images, you will need CloneCD, but all of these programms are available at sharereactor.com or search your p2p network.

As more and more people ask how to burn this or that iso they have downloaded on donkey, I decided to write this small tutorial. I won't annoy you with technical details or other useless stuff, since you only want to get your file on a cd. Now let's get started!

How to burn a disk from a ...

- .cue (small) and .bin (big) image file:
Images with these extensions are most likely created with CDRwin. The bin file is the real image, the cue file contains some extra information about the image. The best program to burn those files would be Nero (...or CDRwin maybe, but I'm focusing on Nero here :D). Choose "Burn disc from image" from file-tab, open the .cue file (the small one!) in the upcoming dialogue and start burning.
Now that was easy, wasn't it?
In case you run into problems with this way, which is in fact one of the best ways an iso can come to you, check some things. first open the .cue file in a text editor. There you will see the name of the .bin file in a way like this:
FILE "youriso.bin" BINARY
Now if you see anything like "D:\youriso.bin" there, remove the first part so its only "youriso.bin". Now move the cue and the bin file together into C:\, the very root. Now open your cue file from there and try again. This should fix the most problems you possibly could run into. If not, your bin file might be corrupted or your cue file might be inaccurate. Both are very seldom problems but can happen, very seldomly though.

- .iso or .bin (without .cue) image file:
If there's no .cue file available for your .bin file, or you got an image with .iso extension, you have to put more effort in getting it to work. If you are lucky, you could try "Burn disc from image" again and select the file. Nero will ask you for some extra information about the image. Check "RAW data" and burn. I don't recommend this, because your image could be in a non-standard format. You should use the "IsoBuster-Method" below.

- .ccd and .img (comes with a .sub file sometimes..) image file:
This is a CloneCD image, which you should use CloneCD for burning it. CloneCD images are the most "sophisticated", because they can copy some of the cheaper copy protections so you might not need a crack. Start CloneCD and select "burn cd from image". Choose your .ccd-file in the upcoming dialogue. Make sure "RAW DAO" and "Don't repair SubChannel Data" are checked before burning. Some older burners don't support "raw dao". If you have one of those, you might be lucky to find a firmware update for your burner on the web, which enables it. If not, use the "IsoBuster-Method" on the .img again.
Burning a CloneCD image is kind of 'delicate', cause sometimes you will get an unreadable or at least 'hard to read' disc. This might happen to you if your burner messed up the copy-protection part of the image. You can try to run the disc from your cd-burner, which can handle bad sectors better than your normal cd-rom drive. If that doesn't help, toss your disc in the garbage. Sorry.
Another mean 'version' of a broken cloned disc is when you can install the game/app, but starting it does nothing but crash your system. In that case, you still can get it to work using a no-cd crack. (see below)

- .img (without .ccd/.sub) image file:
You got a CloneCD image without the CloneCD control file, which tells CloneCD how to burn it. Use the "IsoBuster-Method" below.

- .nrg image file:
You got a Nero-image. There's nothing easier for a Nero user like me! Choose "burn disc from image" and select the .nrg file in order to burn using Nero.

The IsoBuster-Method (Extract your image to hd to burn it afterwards)
Open your image with IsoBuster and right-click the "joilet branch" (the one with blue arrows..) and select "extract directory". Choose a empty temp directory on your harddrive to extract the data to. When this is done, start Nero. Simply choose "Burn data disc" on that freaky wizard. Grab all data from your temp directory to your new disc and change its name to the one displayed by IsoBuster. You can burn your disc like every other now.
You can use this method on nearly every image, but you might loose some extra information. Some people say "WinISO" can handle even more images than IsoBuster, so if IsoBuster can not open your image, try this one instead.

Of course the methods described above will also work with other burning apps than Nero. It's just a recommendation.

Ok, you should have a working disc now, but there's another problem to face. The copy protection! If your game installs alright, but when you try to run it, it says "Insert the correct disc", you have run into it.
To solve it, browse the contents of your cd and (where available) the contents of the archive, the image came with (zip file or something...). Read every info (.nfo) file you find (open them with Notepad or similar program). They often contain information on how to bypass the protection. (You can also find serials and other handy stuff in them sometimes.) In most cases, there is a directory on your disc which contains a cracked executable for your game. Replace your original game executable with that one and everything should work alright. If all that doesn't help you, you might need to get a cracked exe on your own. There's websites like www.gamecopyworld.com where you can download stuff like that.

[enferno 01]

awesome, thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!

[Vladd44]

I know this is really late, but in the interest of anyone looking for good iso progs.

Undisker undisker.com (http://undisker.com) is a really good program that can be used to extract a variety of disk image files (iso,nrg,bin,img etc) it covers a wide variety of options and can function with almost all types of disk images.