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Summary: In order to open a file that exists in .bin format, a special program, such as MagicISO, is necessary. Create a virtual drive when opening .bin files with help from an IT engineer in this free video on computer files.
Ditta Izabella has an IT engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technologies and Economics. She has a variety of computer science skills, including Java, C#, PHP, .Net,...read more
"Hello, my name is Izabella and now I'm going to show you how to open bin files. If you have downloaded something from the internet, and it's in a bin format for example some softwares or games, and you would like to open it, you have to use special programs for this. Now I'm going to show you how you can open these bin files. Here you can see a folder in which we have the bin file and the Q file. And now we are going to use the program which is ISO, so we open it. Okay, here it is. And we go to file. Open. And here we have to select and open our bin file. Okay. Here is - and here we can see the content of the bin file listed in this window. Okay. And now we are going to use daemon tools in the tray, we click on Daemon tools, then the virtual CD/DVD rom, then no media and mount image. We click on mount image and now we have to select our bin file. The Q file, okay, open. Okay, here is the window auto run, and now we go to start, my computer, and here you can see there is a new virtual drive that we have just created. And here if you open it here, you can see the content of the bin file."
eHow Article: How to Open .bin Files