[image] How to view .img files?

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.

OSFMount , MagicDisc , Gizmo Director/Gizmo Drive , The Takeaway .

All these work well on .img files

.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 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 DOS 3.41, 5.0 and 6.0 as well as Novell 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 3.0) such as Ventura Publisher could open and consequently convert such “GEM images” or “Atari 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.

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.

At first you should use file to identify the image:

file foo.img

.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.

If you use Linux or WSL you can use the forensic application binwalk to extract .img files (which are usually disk images) like this:

1. Use your distribution package manager or follow the manual instructions to install binwalk.

2. Use the command binwalk -e FILENAME.img to extract recognized content into a automatically generated directory.

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.

you could use either PowerISO or WinRAR

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.