What and how to open nrg file

Users who download games and movies from the Internet often encounter problems when they start the received files. In particular, newcomers in this business often confuse an unusual format. After all, the downloaded game, as a rule, is not packed into a folder with several files and archives, and this would be much more customary. But no, on the Internet (especially on torrents) programs of this type are distributed in the format of images.

Having received such a file, people do not know what to do with it. The usual methods do not work here, because the "setup" icon simply does not exist. You have to ask knowledgeable friends or search the same web as opening nrg, iso, isz, mdf - the most common extensions. The information obtained is reduced to the fact that to install the game you need a special program-emulator. The downloaded file itself is a full-fledged image of the disk, its virtual copy.

File nrg: how to open

There are many types of emulators. Among them, special attention should be paid to Ahead Nero. This is a paid utility, but it is for her that the extension of nrg is "native". However, the latter does not mean that you will definitely have to buy this program now. In addition to it, there are many more emulators that can just as well launch a downloaded movie or game. Especially highlight Alcohol and UltraISO, which will be discussed below.

For those who do not know how to open the nrg file, and intend to do it for the first time, the easy-to-use utility Daemon Tools Lite is also suitable. Unfortunately, it does not always work with all extensions, so it's important to know the alternatives. So, how to open the nrg file with Alcohol?

Procedure:

When you are going to download this program, you will find out that there are two of its variants - Alcohol 52% and Alcohol 120%. The main difference from one to the other is the advanced capabilities for creating and emulating disk images. Therefore, the second option is distributed as a paid program. But for your task, most likely, it will be enough to use Alcohol 52%. The general pluses include the ability to work with almost all common formats of images available at the moment.

After downloading, start the installation icon. We wait when the corresponding window appears, and click "Next", agreeing with the settings. There were no pitfalls during the installation of this program, so it's not necessary to seriously digest here. At some point, the utility will prompt you to create a virtual drive. We agree. If you were not accidentally allowed to do this, it's okay - you can create this drive a little later, manually.

Upon completion of the installation process, the system will automatically reboot. Better to hedge in advance, saving all important changes and closing the rest of the program. Further, after reboot, click on the shortcut of the program. In addition, when you go to My Computer, you will see the new drive that appeared there. This is the virtual drive, which created Alcohol. If it does not exist, it will be necessary, as mentioned above, to create the drive independently through the program interface.

Now it remains to learn how to actually open the nrg file with the created virtual drive. To do this, click on the icon with the right mouse button. A menu will open in which you must select the "Mount Image" line. Next, we look for our folder with the downloaded game, select the icon of the disk image and open it. All. We can assume that the disc with the game in the drive. Then we work the same way as with a physical medium.

How to open an nrg file with UltraISO

Working with this emulator is a little more complicated than in the previous case. Open the program, go to the main menu and select the item "Open". Here you need to find the folder with the downloaded images and, if there are several of them, choose among them the one you need. Below are the file types that will be displayed. You can change them to Nero - Burning ROM (* .nrg) to display only the desired format. After that, the contents of the disc will be available for further work. Now you know how to open the nrg file, and you can choose any of the methods for this.