Opening an ISO on a laptop.....
 

Okay, heres the problem. My disc got scratched right up, so I couldn't play Sim City 4 any more. And plus it got deleted from my hard drive, so I have to reinstall it. But I still have the CD key, so it's ok. My friend ripped Disc one and two to normal cds for me, tried them on this p.c., they worked just as normal cds, both when I used them as cds and when I saved the files to his hard drive. So, assured that they work, I trid the same trick on my laptop.

HOWEVER

There is some weird application on my laptop known as Record Now! Toshiba. This application makes it easy to rip cds and stuff. No problem there. But, the thing is....it recognises all ISO formats as Record Now files.....so when I click on the ISO format, it keeps opening it up in Record Now, for me to save to a cd. It won't open the ISO...'as is' basically.

I cannot remove Record Now from my laptop, as it is not actually mine :) and I cannot go to any options to 'unassociate all files', like you would with say, Windows Media Player. Is there any sort of way to get around this, without deleting Record Now from the laptop? (it seems to be built in, there is no folder for it, or anything; is this the only way laptops burn to disc?) Or perhaps there is a program I can download from the net, allowing me to open these isos, or at least select 'open with' and open the ISO with that program?

YES I AM A NOOB. SORRY. For other isos, this is not a problem, as Gens seems to be able to read Sonic CD fine (purely speculation of course, I don't own any roms or anything=)

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you! This will help me in more ways then one...I think my Yuri's Revenge Cd is a bit scratched as well....

Simply open the program you want to open the ISOs with (IsoBuster, MagicISO, cdrdao, etc.) and then open the file. Context menu also provides you with a 'open with' possibility, so you can choose the program yourself.

no prob. Do you have to pay for these programs....and if ya do, are there any free ones out there?

First: Please state what exactly your problem is (and maybe more important: What exactly are you trying to achieve - do you want to look at the content of the ISO, do you want to modify the content, do you want to mount the ISO).
Next: Use brain + google to get information about the tools I mentioned.

ugh. Ok I want to open it as a CD. Example: When I double clicked on the ISO file on me mates p.c., it took me in to the contents of it. From there, I could select Autorun, etc.

At the moment, the ISO image is stuck with an inbuilt program for laptops, known as Record Now. This program allows me to burn stuff to CDs/DVDs, but that is it. Each time I try to open the prog, it opens with Record Now, and chucks it in the Record list, as if I want to record it to a CD. That seems to be the only way I can access the file at all ATM.

What I'm trying to say is all I have are 2 ISO files. I want to open them, as if they were actual CDs. So I can install the game on my computer.

So you want to mount the ISO so you can access the content like on a regular hardware disc-drive. For that you need some virtual disc-drive program. Because I suspect that you're only interested in 'free' software, you should go with Daemon Tools. But installing that includes the integration of a new device driver into the system. Because you are not supposed to change the config of the system this is possibly not an option.

He just said he couldn't uninstall anything. Depending on the owner, they might not even notice.

Double Post:
Sorry to double post....but these ISO's are really begining to bug me.

Sim city 4 will not recognise any CD, not even the one in the virtual drive. I mean it will not recognise any of it's cd1 ISO's not matter where they are stored. It just says Incorrect CD, and shuts down. And the virtual Daemon thing cannot explore ISO's.

What I am saying is that now the game is installed on my p.c. I still need the offical CD to run it. Is there any way to just use one of the ISO's I have on my p.c.?


EDIT: Also some people have said for me to just 'mount the ISO using command line mount -t iso9660 /mnt/sdb1/images/CD1.iso /home/user/ISO_IMAGE_MNT/ -o loop'..................WHA? I don't know what command line is or how to access it......are you talking about the black screen on old BBC computers, and Spectrums and Commodores, where you had to type RUN: file1.....etc? Would I need one of these sort of command line thingys? Where do you get if from if I do? I would much rather use a Windows type one, ie: move the mouse to open ISO and click, rather than look at a blank screen and type in D:/ mount/..cd1ISO-home/use etc. etc.......

Of course the game won't recognize your CDs. Get a no-cd crack for your game.

have you tried to install alcohol 120?

Who told you to do that, and did you tell them you're running Windows? Even if 'mount' was a DOS command you wouldn't have a '/mnt' or '/home'. You should hit these people. Unless you're running Linux, in which case you should have said something. :)

Anywho, does the Virtual CD drive show up under My Computer? If so, you should be able to right-click on it and select 'Explore' after you've mounted the ISO.

Oh, and for the record, the easiest way to get a DOS prompt in Windows XP is WindowsKey+R->type 'cmd'->Hit enter.