Simply press the Open button and locate your CD ISO image, it can then be viewed, edited, saved or files extracted from it. The downside is it’s from way back in 2001 and can only handle the processing of CD images, although you can create, edit, convert and make bootable CD images. WinISO also have their old version 5.3 of the software available as freeware and it’s a fully functional product.

Something else useful for installing applications or games from ISO is PowerISO and WinISO allow the mounting of images using their virtual drive functions. The handy thing is, some of the other functions will still work over and above the file limitation such as converting from one image format to another (cue/bin -> ISO), disc burning, and extracting the boot loader information. However, PowerISO, UltraISO, MagicISO and WinISO while having these or similar limitations, still allow you to view and extract files from ISO images.

There are several tools able to do this, unfortunately most of them are shareware and have various restrictions such as not being able to edit or create ISO images over 300MB and nag screens at launch. One obvious way to access the contents of ISO files is to use dedicated software that is built for the job and can create, edit and save ISO images. For example, the screenshot above shows the HAMSTER Free ZIP Archiver with an open ISO file, and you can drag and drop files out of the ISO file to your folder of choice or press the Extract button to copy all files in the ISO to a folder. Usually, with one of these archiver’s installed, you can simply right click on the ISO image file and select extract or extract to… from the menu. There are obviously more freeware tools around and also many shareware offerings, but these free ones listed have also been tested by us in another article for speed and compression rates. Here are a few free archiver tools that support opening and extracting from the ISO format. Most users install a third party archiver as the best Windows can handle by itself is Zip files which isn’t enough most of the time as there are so many different formats out there. The first and probably the easiest method for accessing files in an ISO image is to open or extract the ISO file with a piece of archiving software that supports the ISO format.

Extracting From an ISO File Using an Archiver Windows can’t do it without the aid of third party software, and there are various ways to perform this task, here we’ll show you how. There are times when you might want to examine the contents of, or pull a few files from ISO image without burning it to physical media.

Turn .iso zip file into iso file