Burning Mac DMG DVD Images in Windows!?

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Deleted member 329

Hello!!

I have quite a few Mac DVD DMG's on my Windows PC which I moved over for "long term" storage ( mac drive trial ).
Now my super drive on my mac only reads and doesnt burn and I would really like to free up the space on my windows machine and burn these images to disc.

anyone know of any way to burn these mac images via windows... so they work as they should when I put them in my mac :D

Cheers
 
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yeah thats a good point...

the problems there is when I put it into the mac I would either have to spend ages waiting for it to mount.

Second it one of there is a bootable image!

Cheers
 
lol! is there really no way to burn a mac DMG disc image in windows? madness...
 
I still don't know what you want to do. Opening a dmg file on a mac takes seconds, it's really just an archive file like downloading a zip or rar file containing windows software.

If I wanted to save some dmg files as a backup I wouldn't faff about opening them and burning the contents, I'd just burn the dmg file onto some media.

I can't see any madness here except perhaps the fact that you can't mount a dmg file within windows. I'm not being obtuse but I really don't understand the need to do that.
 
Aite Feek

Your right all bar one worked fine as you suggested.

The one I am having problems with is my Leo backup.

The only work around I have at the mo is just to burn it like you suggested.. however that puts me in a bit of a tight spot should my hard drive go as I wont be able to mount the image to make a bootable hard drive / pen drive leo installer.

hmmmm what to do...
 
As Feek has said, it seems very odd that you're having problems with dmgs.

Dmg files are normal files. All you need todo is copy it to a location, such as a share/external HD/dvd etc and then double click it to mount it. Once mounted just either copy the app or run the installer. If it's playing silly bees then I would be very suspicious about the integrity of the binary - especially if it's attempting to write to other files within the DMG which would be a signature of a virus/malware/trojan modifying install scripts/binaries
 
You can convert it to an .iso as follows, if that's the issue ...

Open a terminal window and put in the following:
Code: 
hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso

You can browse to the .dmg containing folder beforehand if you can't be bothered with the "/path/to/" bit. You'll need quotes around the path if the file name has spaces in it.
 
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HFSExplorer may be able to help, it's worth a try and is free. I only found it today...

It's pretty handy anyway for snagging files from an HFS partition when running Windows. :)
 
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