| Developer(s) | Apple Computer |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Disk image emulator |
| Website | www.apple.com |
The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition that preserves the original structure. With WinImage in place, you can recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content, extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format,. To install WinCDEmu on Windows 10, follow the Windows 10 tutorial. Download the latest version from the WinCDEmu homepage. Run the downloaded file: Confirm the installation: Confirm the installation of the WinCDEmu driver: Once the installation is complete, you can mount the optical disc images by double-clicking on them in Windows Explorer.
DiskImageMounter is the utility that handles mounting disk volume images in Mac OS X, starting with version 10.3. DiskImageMounter works by either launching a daemon to handle the disk image or by contacting a running dæmon and have it mount the disk.
Like BOMArchiveHelper, DiskImageMounter has no GUI when double-clicked; doing so does nothing. The only GUI the program ever displays is a window with a progress bar and mount options (cancel or skip verification) or an error report if it could not mount the image. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app.
Disk Image Mounter Windows
Starting with version 10.7, Apple 'removed double-click support for images using legacy metadata.'[1] DiskImageMounter will not be able to open .img (NDIF only), .smi (self mounting), .dc42 (Disk Copy 4.2), and .dart (DART) disk image formats that was previously supported in version 10.6 and earlier.
Image formats supported[edit]
DiskImageMounter supports a variety of disk image file types:[2]
- Apple Disk Image (.dmg, com.apple.disk-image)
- UDIF disk images (.udif, com.apple.disk-image-udif); UDIF segment (.devs, .dmgpart, com.apple.disk-image-udif-segment)
- self mounting image[nb 1] (.smi, com.apple.disk-image-smi)
- DVD/CD-R master image (.toast, .dvdr, .cdr, com.apple.disk-image-cdr, com.roxio.disk-image-toast)
- disk image segment (dmgpart)[2]
- raw disk image (OSTypes: devr, hdrv, DDim, com.apple.disk-image-raw)
- PC drive container (OSTypes: OPCD, com.apple.disk-image-pc)
- ISO image (.iso, public.iso-image)
- sparse disk image (.sparseimage, com.apple.disk-image-sparse, .sparsebundle)
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As of macOS 11.0, support for the following formats has been removed:
- Disk Copy 4.2 disk image[nb 1] (.dc42, .diskcopy42, com.apple.disk-image-dc42)
- DART disk image[nb 1] (.dart, com.apple.disk-image-dart)
- NDIF disk image[nb 1] (.ndif, .img, com.apple.disk-image-ndif); NDIF disk image segment (.imgpart, com.apple.disk-image-ndif-segment)
Notes[edit]
- ^ abcdMac OS Classic legacy disk image format supported by DiskImageMounter under Mac OS X versions 10.3—10.6[1] As of version 10.9, hdiutil can still convert these formats but unable to open or write them, and version 11.0 removed all support.
References[edit]
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- ^ ab'hdiutil(1) Mac OS X Manual Page'. Apple Inc.Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
- ^ ab/System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app/Contents/Info.plist
See also[edit]
- Disk Copy - this program's predecessor.
- hdiutil - command line tool counterpart that ships with macOS
- FastDMG - free alternative replacement for DiskImageMounter