How to open a .IMG file online
No burning, no mounting, no extra software to install.
Pick your .IMG file
Drag it in or click to choose it. It opens here in seconds.
See what's on it
Read the volume name, when it was made, the file systems it uses and whether it can start a computer.
Browse and save
Step through the folders, preview text and images, and download any single file you need.
About .IMG files
What a .IMG file is, and where it comes from.
An IMG file is most often a raw, sector-by-sector copy of a CD/DVD, floppy, USB stick, or partition, frequently identical to an ISO file. On Windows 8 and later, right-click and choose Mount; to put it on a USB stick, use Rufus or balenaEtcher; to extract files without mounting, open it in 7-Zip. A few unrelated formats also use .img (Android partition images, Garmin maps, old GEM bitmaps), so check where the file came from if it did not come from a disc workflow.
Programs that open .IMG files
| Full name | Raw Disk/Disc Image |
|---|---|
| Developer | No single owner — a raw disk image is a generic format |
| First released | Raw disk images predate standardization (used since the floppy/optical era) |
| Category | Archives |
| MIME type | application/octet-stream |
Related viewers
Open what you find on the disc.
Can I open a 4 GB+ .IMG file?
Yes. The viewer never loads the whole file. It reads the disc's directory structure piece by piece, so even large DVD and Blu-ray images open in a second.
How do I know if an ISO is bootable?
Look at the Boot panel. If the image has an El Torito boot record, we show whether it boots on classic BIOS PCs, on UEFI computers, or both.
I have a .bin and a .cue file. Which one do I open?
Open the .bin file: it holds the data. The .cue file is a small text file describing the tracks; drop it on its own to see the track list.
Can I browse a virtual machine disk (VHD, VMDK)?
Today we show the disk details and partition table. Browsing NTFS, ext4 and other file systems inside virtual disks is on our roadmap.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Your .IMG file is read directly from your device by your browser.
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