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  1. This conversion could be done through Mac Terminal easily. The reason behind this conversion is that DMG is a file format which works on Mac only but if you want to transfer any DMG file to Windows system then first you have to convert it to Windows compatible file format ISO, otherwise the DMG file is useless for Windows.
  2. As a final note in this series, it’s important to understand that a.dmg file is the same as a raw “.dd” file. It simply has a different extension. You can arbitrarily change the extension from.dd to.dmg and back again. The advantage to using.dmg extension is that on a Mac, you can double-click the file to mount it as a volume.
  3. When changing my mac HDD to an SSD I ran into the following problem: I've created a DMG image of my old HDD which has a capacity of 320GB. The DMG file remembered and saved the capacity in the image, and the problem is my SSD is only 120GB. So the DMG can't be used if I can't decrease the capacity somehow.

May 23, 2011  As a final note in this series, it’s important to understand that a.dmg file is the same as a raw “.dd” file. It simply has a different extension. You can arbitrarily change the extension from.dd to.dmg and back again. The advantage to using.dmg extension is that on a Mac, you can double-click the file to mount it as a volume.

If you want to convert a Mac disk image file DMG to ISO format than its not much a difficult task. This conversion could be done through Mac Terminal easily.

The reason behind this conversion is that DMG is a file format which works on Mac only but if you want to transfer any DMG file to Windows system then first you have to convert it to Windows compatible file format ISO, otherwise the DMG file is useless for Windows.

So, follow the instructions written below to convert DMG file to ISO format.

Step 1

Click on Finder

Step 2

Click on Applications, and then click Utilities

Step 3

Double click on Terminal to launch

Step 4

In Terminal window type the following command and hit Enter button from keyboard. Here trickyways.dmg is our provided file name

hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/’trickyways.dmg’ -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/’trickyways.iso’

Step 5

When Terminal completes process, you’ll find a file with .iso.cdr extension, as here is trickyways.iso.cdr besides the trickyways.dmg

Step 6

Click on trickyways.iso.cdr file & press enter to rename it. Delete .cdr extension


When you’ll try to delete .cdr the following Window will pop up, click on Use .iso option

Step 7

Now the extension of file is trickyways.iso

Extract dmg files on windows. Choose “Extract Files” to select a folder where the files are extracted, “Extract Here” to extract files to the same folder where the DMG file is, or “Extract to foldername” to create a new folder named after the DMG file and extract the files to that new folder.

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What is DMG file and what’s the purpose of it?

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Advantages:

  • Preserve bootable state of dmg
  • Eliminate a space required to convert read-only dmg to read-write
  • Add, edit, delete any items on dmg
  • Less time consuming as compare to other approaches

Edit Read Only DMG

Mac Os X Dmg File

Step 1

Attach read-only dmg file using hdiutil