Through the following tutorial you will learn how to easily mount or open a BIN file in Daemon Tools and in this way you will be able to see all the information stored in this type of document.
What is Daemon Tools?
Daemon Tools is a well known application to mount or open a BIN file. The way this tool works is to emulate a disk drive to view the content of a file in image format as it would be originally displayed.
Knowing how to burn an ISO image on a Bootable USB and also use programs like Daemon Tools is something that every computer user should know, since it is very common to come across files in BIN format.
The BIN-format
Like other files in image format, documents with the BIN extension are exact copies of digital information from CDs, DVDs and other similar media.
Although this format has been deprecated, images are still available in this type of file and fortunately the Daemon Tools application can easily open them.
How to mount or open a BIN file in Daemon Tools easily
Using the following guide, you will be able to purchase the latest version of Daemon Tools Lite. In this way, you can use it to open files in BIN, ISO and many other formats.
- You will be able to download the application in its lite version directly from the official website, which you can access through the official Daemon Tools page.
- Press the “Download” option. You may need to press this button twice (it’s a completely free version and may show ads)
- After clicking on the download button, the download of the installer should start, wait until the file is downloaded and run it. Running the downloaded program will start downloading the files needed for the Daemon Tools installation.
- Once the download is complete, the “Install” option will appear, click on it.
- The installation software will be displayed on the screen, in this case select the “Free License” option and click on “Agree & Continue”.
- Proceed with the installation, setting the options to your liking and wait until the process is finished before you can start using the program.
Use Daemon Tools to open files in BIN format
Actions like creating and mounting an ISO image are possible with Daemon Tools. However, to perform complex actions, it is important that you know some basic tasks such as the ability to open files in BIN format.
Please read the following information carefully if you want to open such files with Daemon Tools software as easy as possible.
Open BIN files with Daemon Tools Lite
- The process to open an image in BIN format with Daemon Tools is very simple. Once you successfully install the software, access the program from the Windows taskbar or directly open the App using its shortcut.
- To open an image format file more easily, use the “Quick Mount” option that you will find at the bottom left of the application screen.
- Locate the BIN format file you want to open, click on it and then click “Open”.
- The image in BIN format will be mounted on a virtual drive that will be displayed under “Computer”. You can easily recognize it because it shows up as a Blu-ray drive.
- This way you can access the information stored within this type of file.
This tutorial is functional exclusively for Windows. In any case, there are options available for other operating systems. For example, it is possible to mount and unmount images in ISO format on Linux and other operating systems as needed.
