Those who worked with Ahead Nero , an application for recording multimedia content, were faced with the opportunity to save the project, which is called halfway. This remarkable property is expressed in saving work with data to the nrg file.
How to open such a file, I will clarify along the way. First I’ll tell you what kind of file it is, then - “why eat it.”
1. What is the nrg format. Destination
The program Nero can work with disk images. An image is an exact copy of a storage medium, in this case a CD. If such a disk is inserted in the drive, the application can create its nrg image and save it in an accessible location.
When you need to restore data in the reverse order - burn it to a CD, you can use Nero and other tools to work with images. The .nrg archive created in advance is, as it were, transferred to the CD.
2. How to write the nrg file. How to open the created image
Suppose you created a copy of the data in the specified format. And now this information needed to be transferred to the CD. Therefore, consider the nrg format, how to open such a file and how to recognize it in Ahead Nero .
3. Opening
- slide your data-free CD into the drive tray. If autorun works, it is possible that the “my computer” program will open. In this case, close or minimize its window to the taskbar.
- open the Nero application executable. Then the items “file” - “open” . In the file selection window that appears, put a filter of type nrg , and in the field for the file name, enter the desired option. Or, scroll vertically if there are few files.
- The second way is to click on the corresponding icon in the toolbar. The result is similar.
4. Recording Settings for Nero
So nrg. How to open the image is understandable. Now you need to decide on the optimal recording settings.
- Determine the maximum speed - a function that calculates at what maximum speed you can write data without interruption.
- Checkbox “imitation” - imitates data recording, but does not record anything. This is useful for a CD health test.
- Checkbox “finalization of the project” - sets the label of the only and final recording of the image to disk. Further data recording will not be possible.
- Burn - the result of recording with visualization of a user window for monitoring the process.
5. Alcohol 120%, Daemon Tools ... nrg format than open, besides Nero
The above programs also know how to work with the disk image, as they are virtual emulators.
Open any of the emulation applications. Using the interface, add a new virtual drive to the system. After that, the .nrg image will only be mounted on the expected device.
To do this, select “mount image file” or with a synonymous name (depends on the program). In the standard dialog interface, specify the source of the image and click on the “open” task.
If nrg is mounted, disk virtualization applications usually show this. Anyway, you can always view the image through the windows explorer.
6. Why Can't I Burn a Nero File to a CD by Explorer
When you write data through the CD-ROM drive using the built-in shell, the information is transferred as is. The same thing will happen with the image of Ahead. It is not the internal content of the image that is written, but just the nrg file.
In the case of using emulators, the extension we are talking about is unpacked into a temporary folder, and then the unpacked image data is written to disk.
7. Archivers
Once again about nrg. How to open this file as a folder for reading? Some archivers can read images in the form of directories. For example, the winrar and 7-zip programs do an excellent job of iso files. It is also possible that there are their counterparts that can read the nrg image directly.
In this case, again, the temporary data is unpacked, and no content inside the container changes.