Saturday, March 21, 2009

What software is the best to unzip an ISO file?

I have an ISO file I need to unzip. What is the best software to by to do this?

Thank you for your help in advance!


Virtual CloneDrive

Features

*Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD

*Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time

*Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive

*Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost.

Download:http://static.slysoft.com/SetupVirtualCloneDrive.exe

OR

7-Zip

Features

*High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression

*Supported formats:

*Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

*Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

*For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip

*Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats

*Self-extracting capability for 7z format

*Integration with Windows Shell

*Powerful File Manager

*Powerful command line version

*Plugin for FAR Manager

*Localizations for 74 languages

Download:http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z464-x64.msi

ISO files are images of drives. Typically these are CDs or DVDs. They are simply archives. They however, are not compressed. So there is no unzipping (one of many compression techniques) of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image

Typically you burn them to media. There are programs to mount ISO images as drives and there are programs to open and extract files from ISO images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_image_software

Your boned. You wont be unzipping it anytime soon. Now if you wanted to MOUNT the ISO, you could use something like Daemon Tools or PowerISO. Chances are youre trying to pirate something and failing though, in which case you need read up on what your doing. If you dont know what an ISO is, you probably dont know how to protect yourself from.....

nevermind, good luck

If the file was zipped up using a compression tool, it depends on the software that was used to zip it up in the first place, but generally speaking, 7Zip (Free) will work on many different types of compressed files.

You don't unzip an ISO file, it is an image file.

MagicISO has a free version. You can see what is in the ISO file, and you can download MagicDisc to mount it. That makes ur comp think it is a CD.

Unfortunately you are an idiot because you don't unzip an ISO file. An ISO file is a disc image file. I supposed you could extract the files using a program like ISO Buster though.

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