IMG, in computing, refers to binary files with the
.img
filename extension that store raw disk images of floppy disks, hard drives, and optical discs or a bitmap image – .img
.Overview[edit]
Save the.img file to the desktop. If your compressed file was downloaded from a website, it may be saved in the Downloads folder in your Documents or user directory. Launch WinZip from your start menu or Desktop shortcut. Open the compressed file by clicking File Open. Is the primary software program that utilizes the Sage ACT! Email Message file, originally developed by Swiftpage, Inc. Commonly, Sage ACT! Email Message files are found on user computers from Romania, and on PCs running the Windows 10 operating system. An.ima file is a container for a series of sequential MRI scans (usually, of a human brain) that can be opened, viewed, and analyzed using dedicated MRI software or open-source packages like ImageJ. Besides, Siemens DICOM (.ima) images can be directly viewed using several multi-format image viewers. You need a suitable software like AOL Instant Messenger to open an IMA file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message 'How do you want to open this file?' (Windows 10) or 'Windows cannot open this file' (Windows 7) or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your IMA file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file.
The
.img
filename extension is used by disk image files, which contain raw dumps of a magnetic disk or of an optical disc. Since a raw image consists of a sector-by-sector binary copy of the source medium, the actual format of the file contents will depend on the file system of the disk from which the image was created (such as a version of FAT). Raw disk images of optical media (such as CDs and DVDs) contain a raw image of all the tracks in a disc (which can include audio, data and video tracks). In the case of CD-ROMs and DVDs, these images usually include not only the data from each sector, but the control headers and error correction fields for each sector as well. Since IMG files hold no additional data beyond the disk contents, these files can only be automatically handled by programs that can detect their file systems. For instance, a typical raw disk image of a floppy disk begins with a FAT boot sector, which can be used to identify its file system. Disc images of optical media are usually accompanied by a descriptor file which describes the layout of the disc, and includes information such as track limits which are not stored in the raw image file.
Filename extensions and variants[edit]
The
.img
file extension was originally used for floppy disk raw disk images only. A similar file extension, .ima
, is also used to refer to floppy disk image files by some programs. A variant of IMG, called IMZ, consists of a gzipped version of a raw floppy disk image. These files use the .imz
file extension, and are commonly found in compressed images of floppy disks created by WinImage.QEMU uses the
.img
file extension for raw images of hard drive disks, calling the format simply 'raw'.In the following table, you can find a list of programs that can open files with.ima extension.This list is created by collecting extension information reported by users through the 'send report' option of FileTypesMan utility. The product name, description, and company name are taken from the version information of the.exe file.The 'Actions' list is taken from the context menu items added.
CloneCD stores optical disc images in
.img
files and generates additional CloneCD Control Files (with .ccd
extension) for each image to hold the necessary metadata. The CUE/BIN format stores disc images in .bin
files, which are functionally equivalent to .img
image files, and uses .cue
files as descriptor files.Size[edit]
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The file size of a raw disk image is always a multiple of the sector size. For floppy disks and hard drives this size is typically 512 bytes (but other sizes such as 128 and 1024 exist). More precisely, the file size of a raw disk image of a magnetic disk corresponds to:
- Cylinders × Heads × (Sectors per track) × (Sector size)
E.g. for 80 cylinders (tracks) and 2 heads (sides) with 18 sectors per track:
- 80 × 2 × 18 × 512 = 1,474,560 bytes or 1440 KB
For optical discs such as CDs and DVDs, the raw sector size is usually 2,352, making the size of a raw disc image a multiple of this value.
Comparison to ISO images[edit]
ISO images are another type of optical disc image files, which commonly use the
.iso
file extension, but sometimes use the .img
file extension as well. They are similar to the raw optical disc images, but contain only one track with computer data obtained from an optical disc. They cannot contain multiple tracks, nor audio or video tracks. They also do not contain the control headers and error correction fields of CD-ROM or DVD sectors that raw disc images usually store. Their internal format follows the structure of an optical disc file system, commonly ISO 9660 (for CDs) or UDF (for DVDs). The CUE/BIN and CCD/IMG formats, which usually contain raw disc images, can also store ISO images instead.IMG as an Image file format[edit]
Also,
.img
is a planar bitmap graphics file using simple run-length encoding, originating with Digital Research's GEM. It was commonly used on the Atari ST line of home computers, but also with some GEM-based PC software such as Corel Ventura or Timeworks Publisher.Other disk image files[edit]
In addition,
.img
is an Apple Disk Image used by the Mac OS X or macOS operating system.Garmin .img is a hard-disk image file format which contains a header and many subfiles and used to store the maps for its GPS units.
Tools[edit]
The raw IMG file format is used by several tools:
- RaWrite and WinImage use the IMG disk image format to read and write floppy disk images.
- ImDisk and Virtual Floppy Drive can mount a raw image of a floppy disk to emulate a floppy drive under Microsoft Windows.
- Nero Burning ROM supports reading IMG files for creating bootable CDs.
- mtools allows manipulation of MS-DOS floppy disk images in Unix systems.
- Programs such as dsktrans from the LibDsk[1] suite of command-line tools (available for Linux, MS-DOS, and Microsoft Windows) will convert between different raw disk image formats.
- dd can be used in Unix to create raw disk image files of disks.
- QEMU uses IMG files as its default format for hard drive disk images.
- IrfanView with the plugin 'FORMATS' (formats.dll) supports viewing GEM vector graphics IMG.
- Garmin MapSource or GPSMapEdit can be used to read Garmin hard-disk image
.img
format.
References[edit]
- ^LibDsk suite of tools for accessing discs and disc image files
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.ima Extension - List of programs that can open .ima files |
In the following table, you can find a list of programs that can open files with .ima extension.This list is created by collecting extension information reported by users through the 'send report' option of FileTypesMan utility.
The product name, description, and company name are taken from the version information of the .exe file.The 'Actions' list is taken from the context menu items added to Explorer by the specified program.The 'Popularity' column displays one of the following 4 values: Low, Medium, High, and Very High, which is determined according to the number of users that sent the specified record.
The product name, description, and company name are taken from the version information of the .exe file.The 'Actions' list is taken from the context menu items added to Explorer by the specified program.The 'Popularity' column displays one of the following 4 values: Low, Medium, High, and Very High, which is determined according to the number of users that sent the specified record.
EXE Name | Product Name | Description | Company | Actions | Popularity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
7zFM.exe | 7-Zip | 7-Zip File Manager | Igor Pavlov | open | Low |
ActEmail.exe | ACT! by Sage | ActEmail MFC Application | Sage Software, Inc | Open with ACT! E-mail | Low |
gimp-2.10.exe | GNU Image Manipulation Program | GNU Image Manipulation Program | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team | Edit with GIMP | Low |
gimp-2.8.exe | GNU Image Manipulation Program | GNU Image Manipulation Program | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team | Edit with GIMP | Low |
ImgBurn.exe | ImgBurn | ImgBurn - The Ultimate Image Burner! | LIGHTNING UK! | Burn using ImgBurn | Low |
ImpCnt.exe | ImpCnt.exe Application | IncrediMail Content Importer | IncrediMail, Ltd. | open | Low |
i_view32.exe | IrfanView 32-bit | IrfanView 32-bit | Irfan Skiljan | open | Medium |
i_view32.exe | IrfanView | IrfanView | Irfan Skiljan | open | Very High |
i_view64.exe | IrfanView 64-bit | IrfanView 64-bit | Irfan Skiljan | open | Medium |
PowerISO.exe | PowerISO | PowerISO | Power Software Ltd | open | Medium |
UltraISO.exe | UltraISO Premium | UltraISO Premium | EZB Systems, Inc. | Open by UltraISO | Low |
uniextract.exe | Universal Extractor | UniExtract Files.., UniExtract Here, UniExtract to Subdir | Low | ||
vlc.exe | VLC media player | VLC media player 2.0.1 | VideoLAN | Add to VLC media player's Playlist, Play with VLC media player | Low |
WinArchiver.exe | WinArchiver | WinArchiver | Power Software Ltd | open | Low |
winimage.exe | WinImage application file | Extract, open | Medium | ||
xnview.exe | XnView | XnView for Windows | XnView, http://www.xnview.com | open | Low |
In the following table, you can find a list of file types information that is associated with .ima extension.
Type Name | Description | Perceived Type | ContentType | DLL/EXE File | DLL/EXE Details | Popularity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7z | Compressed Archive | 7z.dll | 7z Plugin, Igor Pavlov | Low | ||
ActEmailFile | ACT! E-mail Message | ActEmail.exe | ActEmail MFC Application, Sage Software, Inc | Low | ||
IncrediContent | IncrediMail Content | application/x-incredimail | ImpCnt.exe | IncrediMail Content Importer, IncrediMail, Ltd. | Low | |
IrfanView.DCM | IrfanView DCM File | i_view32.exe | IrfanView, Irfan Skiljan | Very High | ||
IrfanView.dcm | Low | |||||
PowerISO | PowerISO Plik | PowerISO.exe | PowerISO, Power Software Ltd | Low | ||
PowerISO | PowerISO File | PowerISO.exe | PowerISO, Power Software Ltd | Medium | ||
PowerISO | BIF Image | xnview.exe | XnView for Windows, XnView, http://www.xnview.com | Low | ||
UltraISO | IrfanView DCM File | i_view32.exe | IrfanView 32-bit, Irfan Skiljan | Low | ||
UltraISO | UltraISO File | UltraISO.exe | UltraISO Premium, EZB Systems, Inc. | Low | ||
WinArchiver.IMA | WinArchiver IMA File | WinArchiver.exe | WinArchiver, Power Software Ltd | Low | ||
WinImage | WinImage | winimage.exe | Medium |
Registry keys related to this extension |
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.ima
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT7z
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTActEmailFile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTIncrediContent
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTIrfanView.DCMHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTPowerISO
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTUltraISO
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWinArchiver.IMA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWinImage
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