Help Needed With Bin File

pgodkin · 10-01-2006 1:25pm #1

Hi boyz & Girls

Haven't been here in a while but was lookin for a little help, my friend gave me a cd with a flick on it but i cant read it the files are in .bin format

can anyone help me change them, im workin on xp, on the older verisons of windows i could go into name change and add .AVI or .divx and this use to work but it doesnt seem to work on xp can anyone help?

Cheers in advance

Philip:)

AnCapaillMor · 10-01-2006 1:41pm

bin is an image, you should be able to extract it using winrar, force winrar to open it, or mount it as an image with daemon tools.

pgodkin · 10-01-2006 1:52pm

ok i'll try that but before i posted i went into the prop of the file and ask xp to open the file with media player as it was the only video player thats on my system but now its changed all bin files to that program and when i tryed to get winrar to open it, it keeps trying to play it in the windows player

how do i get it the bin files paired back with the orginal program thats suspose to open it with?????

jay-me · 10-01-2006 1:53pm

Go to open with again and un check the box for file associations

seamus · 10-01-2006 1:55pm

In windows explorer, Go to Tools -> Folder Options
Select the File Types tab, select the BIN extension and click Delete.

TerrorFirmer · 10-01-2006 2:00pm

Just install Alcohol or Daemon tools and mount....

btw - to change extensions back, right click on file, properties, and change default program

Sam Vimes · 10-01-2006 2:02pm

vlc plays bin files. for each .bin file, there's a .cue file right?

if you right-click on the file, there should be an "open with" option. or you can set vlc to be the default player

pgodkin · 10-01-2006 2:04pm

Hey done what u said highlighted the bin extension but it wouldnt give me the option to del it, isnt the bin extenson important to the running of the computer? will try Daemon but any other suggestions would be cool what program is suppose to be associated with the bin extension????

philip

seamus · 10-01-2006 2:09pm

pgodkin wrote:

Hey done what u said highlighted the bin extension but it wouldnt give me the option to del it, isnt the bin extenson important to the running of the computer?

No.

will try Daemon but any other suggestions would be cool what program is suppose to be associated with the bin extension????

Daemon tools to open it. Or use Nero to burn it to CD or DVD (depending on the type of file). bin is short for binary. It's a file full of raw data - it's usually a CD "image", literally as if you peeled off all of the data of some storage device, in sequence as it appears on the device. There's not really any program that will "open" a bin file, what they'll do is take the raw data and interpret it into what it's supposed to be.

angelofdeath · 10-01-2006 2:13pm

videolan or media player classic opens bin files afaik

pgodkin · 10-01-2006 2:19pm

Hey i've downloaded the VLC media Player!! This works fine thanks lads! thans very much

Philip

Help Needed With Bin File

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