How to mount a dmg file in Windows?

Question

I need to mount a .dmg file on windows 7. These are the disk image container files as are commonly used with Apple's OSX.

What applications/utilities will do this? I know Daemon tools won't.

Answer 1

Convert the dmg file to an ISO format, then mount the iso with the same software that converted it.

Magic Iso

Or convert it to iso on a MAC PC

dmg to iso

hdiutil convert /path/imagefile.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/convertedimage.iso

iso to dmg

hdiutil convert /path/imagefile.iso -format UDRW -o /path/convertedimage.dmg

MAC source

Answer 2

According to the Wikipedia page on DMGs:

In Windows, most dmg images can be opened using several other programs such as Acute Systems TransMac, HFSExplorer, 7-Zip, UltraISO or IsoBuster. MacDrive[9] can also mount simple dmg files as drives under windows, but not sparse disk or encrypted dmgs.

I suggest you try 7-Zip as you can use it for free and it's pretty solid software.

For any Linux users wondering about this, the same Wikipedia page states:

In Linux and possibly other Unix flavors, most .dmg files can be burned to CD/DVD using the program cdrecord or directly mounted to a mountpoint (e.g. mount -o loop,ro -t hfsplus imagefile.dmg /mnt/mountpoint).

PowerISO is a proprietary, cross platform, Freeware CLI tool that runs on Linux; it can convert most proprietary image formats to ISO, and newer versions support .dmg.