How to view img files

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I m trying find software to view the  img files But its not expected   img file its not all images  it contains some values too So i would like to view the  img file Please advise any software like that

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IMG files are ususally filesystems  not pictures  The easiest way to access them is to install VMWare  install Windows in VMWare  and then add the  img file as some kind of disk device  floppy  cdrom  hard disk   If you guess the right kind  Windows might be able to open it

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you could use either PowerISO or WinRAR

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The file extension  img does not say anything about its content   Most commonly  img files are a floppy CD DVD ISO image  a filesystem image  a disk image  or even just  custom  binary data   In case it is an CD DVD image or a specific filesystem image  like fat  ntfs       you can open these files with 7-Zip   On  nix based systems also the file tool or  libmagic  could help you find out what it is

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With  nix  usually  you don t need a software to view an  img file  You can use the loop device to mount it and then every file manager to navigate it  Here you can find how  Sometime you need to install some package to manage strange filesystem like squashfs

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As you did not mention which OS you are running  here a solution for linux  use losetup  losetup  dev loop0  path to your file img   Then you can mount it

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img is way too unspecific  This file extension is widely used for a variety of  raw  file formats  It is an abbreviation for    image    and that can be any image you can imagine   or cannot imagine at all  as you have never heard of it   For example   IMG used to be a GEM bitmap image file  Does anyone remember GEM at all  It was the Windows competitor from Digital Research  The Atari nbsp ST version was widely used  but there was also a DOS version of GEM  One of the stripped down versions  which was necessary to avoid copyright claims from Apple  was ViewMAX included in DR nbsp DOS 3 41  5 0 and 6 0 as well as Novell nbsp DOS 7 0  It is now open source and can be downloaded freely as OpenGEM  Still requires DOS and is included in the FreeDOS distribution  For viewing GEM bitmap images  Windows programs of that time  around DOS-based Windows nbsp 3 0  such as Ventura Publisher could open and consequently convert such    GEM images    or    Atari nbsp ST images    into other  more widely used formats   But I doubt that this kind of  img-file is what you meant  Still  you have to be more specific   Most widely  img is used as a raw filesystem image of e g  a floppy disk  As mentioned by others  such images can be opened by a number of programs  Or directly mounted under Unix-like systems like BSD and Linux  7-Zip is also able to extract files from such images for supported filesystems  such as FAT  At least the command-line version  Just type 7z x image img and it will extract the included files   Note however that there are also other image formats out there  such as IBM s  dsk  sometimes using different file extensions  Such files can be raw floppy images  but they can also be in IBM s SAVEDSKF LOADDSKF format  These files are basically raw files with stripped zeros at the end  but with a header at the beginning of the files  I doubt that 7-Zip can extract such images  even though it would only be necessary to find the appropriate offset  Anyhow  since the image past the header is basically raw and uncompressed  using dd you can extract the image and make it a raw  img floppy image  Suppose the header is hex 291 bytes long  which you will have to figure out by looking inside the file e g  using a hex editor   This equals 657 bytes to skip  resulting in dd if image dsk of rawimage img bs 1 skip 657  The resulting rawimage img would however be non-standard in size  This can be fixed  again  by using dd  dd if  der zero of rawimage img count 0 bs 1 seek 1474560     this will make a sparse file out of it  resulting in the correct file size for a 1 44 MB floppy image and returning zeros at unused positions  Works with most programs under Linux   But in general   img can be any file that is classified as    an image     thus any application can include a  proprietory  file with this extension  Such files can than only be used  opened  by said application

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If you use Linux or WSL you can use the forensic application binwalk to extract  img files  which are usually disk images  like this    Use your distribution package manager or follow the manual instructions to install binwalk  Use the command binwalk -e FILENAME img to extract recognized content into a automatically generated directory

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If you want to open  img files  you can use 7-zip  which is freeware     http   www 7-zip org   Once installed  right click on the relevant img file  hover over  7-zip   then click  Open Archive   Bear in mind  you need a seperate program  or Windows 7 to burn the image to disc   Hope this helps   Edit  Proof that it works  not my video  credit to howtodothe on YouTube

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At first you should use file to identify the image   file foo img

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OSFMount   MagicDisc   Gizmo Director Gizmo Drive   The Takeaway    All these work well on  img files

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