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Imaging Windows HD with a OS X Disk Utility fails, “Invalid Argument”
I have a Windows laptop HDD that I want to create an image file with, using OS X's Disk Utility.
When I try to create an image it fails (invalid argument). I created a video of me attempting to ...
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Create a bootable USB drive from a DMG file on Windows
A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store.
I now need to create a bootable USB drive from the DMG file but I need to be ...
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Mac OS 10.7 DMG files don't pop up anymore?
Has anybody noticed that double-clicking on a DMG file no longer raises the mounted image to the front of all windows? It used to be that when you double-clicked a dmg file, it would pop-up but now ...
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Prevent finder from auto-opening a specific DMG when plugged in
I have a China Unicom / Huawei USB Aircard which I use to get mobile internet/broadband. Every time I plug it into my computer though, OS X (Lion) see's it as a DMG and Finder opens the DMG. Inside, ...
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Can I convert my OS X Lion into a VMware virtual machine?
Is it possible to convert the current OS X Lion 10.7.1 install on my Mac Mini (i5, 8GB RAM) into a virtual machine via VMWare converter? I use VMware Fusion 4.
Or, is my only option to set up the ...
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How can I run fsck on a disk image via Mac Terminal?
I want to run fsck on a disk image before I use it to restore (replace) a corrupted volume. Using Terminal, what would be the proper command, syntax, and options for this operation?
I've just ...
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How can I prevent DMGs from hiding the sidebar in Mac OS Finder?
Many installation DMGs do that and it's completely annoying because often the DMGs don't offer an alias of the Applications folder where you could move the app to. And a different case would be that ...
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Determine exact size of DMG to hold data
Let's say that I have three files with the following sizes:
FileA: 15468bytes
FileB: 3874235bytes
FileC: 10452326bytes
and I want to create a UDIF, GPTSPUD, HFS+ DMG with hdiutil which will ...
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How to mount a dmg file in Windows?
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.
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Can Linux mount a normal Time Machine sparse bundle disk image directory?
I am looking to see if Linux can mount and read the files natively stored on a Time Capsule over a network share. Like this question, I am looking for something that replicates at least read-only ...
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How to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on any virtual machine with DMG?
I'm trying to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server on VirtualBox. I know this is duplicated question, however another questions have no fine answer.
I'm trying to install on VirtualBox on iMac. So ...
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Tool to generate icons like the default dmg-icon with a custom icon on top in perspective
I'm looking for a tool or template which generates icons like this default one:
With custom icons applied on top of it in the right perspective like here:
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How do I burn a .dmg DVD on my Windows PC, so that I can run it on my Mac? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to burn DMGs on a Windows PC?
I downloaded a 4.6GB .dmg file on my Windows computer.
What Windows program can burn this .dmg file to a DVD, so that I can ...
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How can I mount an AES-128 encrypted DMG file using the NTFS file system under Windows XP?
I found HFSExplorer, which can handle encrypted DMG files, but it only supports HFS, and the DMG I want to open is NTFS. I can't just use any image mounter since the DMG file is encrypted, and I don't ...
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Install Mac OS X Server from Apple's website
I just downloaded Mac OS X Server from Apple's developer website and have the DMG file in my downloads folder. I opened it, let the box pop up, and then it says that I need to restart my computer. I ...
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strange: random google-XXX.dmg mounts and umounts on OSX
I just noticed via HardwareGrowl, that a .dmg image file mounted and unmounted all by itself. It was called google-XXX.dmg (where XXX represents a number i did not note down that fast.
I am running ...
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How to prevent HDIUTIL from opening a finder window when mounting a dmg?
When I mount a DMG image with
hdiutil -noautoopen
and try to suppress the finder window with any and all command line arguments to HDIUTIL it still open's a Finder window. There must be a way to ...
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Clone Windows 7 from new netbook to dual-boot MacBook Pro [closed]
I need a real tech expert for this. This project might be very complicated. So bear with me and try to help me with this. Here's the basic idea of what I'm trying to do.
Outline:
I have a netbook ...
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7gb .DMG file, only 986mb?
I have a .DMG file of around 7GB.
When I try and open it using Ultra ISO or Magic ISO it just sees it as a 986MB file?
I would love to burn this to a USB key or something, but obviously it wont boot ...
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How can I prevent Mac apps from deleting a temporary folder that they have created?
I'm using an app called DropDMG to extract a large zip file that is 109 GB in size.
However once it's extracted the whole bundle, it ends with an error from its subprocess ditto and deletes the ...
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DMG image containing Mac OS X 10.6.5 update not recognized
I want to update my Mac OS X 10.6.3 and want to use the manual package update (not Software Update) and I am having this problem for two days now. First I downloaded Mac OS X 10.6.5 Combo update and ...
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difference bitween .dmg and .exe
i was using mac the other day i found that it doesn't support .exe file but it needs .dmg file...what is the difference between .dmg and .exe file!!
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Bypass a licence agreement when mounting a DMG on the command line
I'm automating my Mac installation using puppet. As a part of it I need to install several programs that come in a .dmg format.
I use the following to mount them:
sudo /usr/bin/hdiutil mount -plist ...
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Caveats about compressed DMG?
I was curious about using compressed and modifiable DMGs to store all kinds of data.
Eg: I've got a tablatures set for guitar which is like 120mb zipped and contains 60-70k files and 1.3Gb unzipped. ...
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How to clone DMG image to another partition, or USB partition?
Hackintosh probably is not welcome in here, but question is about cloning DMG image to any partition on HDD or USB drive...
I know that there's TRANSMAC software, but this one wants to format full ...
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Made a .dmg for a project; user can't open it - “no mountable file systems”
We don't know a great deal about Macs. We had to make an installer, and were told to try a .dmg
So we put together version 1, and it seemed to work. We had one application file, which had our icon, ...
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How do I get rid of a .dmg file which appears after reboot on my desktop?
I downloaded software (Skype), installed it everything works fine. The only annoying thing is that the dmg image always appears after rebooting. I'm new to Mac OS X.
EDIT: It's exactly as described ...
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Restore damaged boot sector
After a series of unfortunate events, I have a clone of my laptop's hard drive as a .dmg file (created using dd). The dmg was built using the noerror option, which means that significant portions of ...
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OS X: do you really need to drag applications to the “Applications” folder?
When you install an OS X application from a .dmg file, it is very typical, when you mount/open the .dmg, to see the application's icon followed by an arrow pointing to the "Applications" folder, a bit ...
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Write to .dmg file on Mac OS X 10.6.4
Following steps to update a .dmg file (mounting and Show Contents), I'm unable to write to the folders in the DMG file.
Doing a "Get Info" displays a locked padlock and all else greyed out in the ...
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Backup mounted drive of an image in Time Machine
As a mac user, I'm fairly new but I now find myself using disk images a lot (dmgs and sparseimages/bundles) to organise my files. Mostly encrypted images to hold my private stuff and other images that ...
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Why mounting readonly dmg sometimes changes image file
Why some readonly dmg images are changing when mounted and what is changed in them? I mean readonly image, not readonly or locked dmg file.
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How to burn rEfit .cdr or .dmg in Ubuntu or Windows?
I don't have Mac OS X installed on my MacBook Pro, but I have Ubuntu and Windows.
I was following this website's instructions to boot faster into Ubuntu without a 30 second delay. However I can't ...
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DMG mounting warning message says “it may make computer less secure or cause other problems”
When I try to open a DMG file I get this:
I'll just transcript the image:
There may be a problem with this disk image. Are you sure you want to open it?
Opening this disk image may make ...
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Prepare bootable Mac OS install usb on Windows
Is there any software out there that can simulate Disk Utility (Mac app) for Windows?
I need to reinstall leopard on my Mac because I screwed something up on the current OS. The thing is, the DVD ...
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Install iPhone SDK DMG file on iMac but I can't find where any of the programs are located
I just download the iPhone SDK disk image from Apple and installed in on my new iMac (by following these directions: link text).
The problem is, I can't seem to find where any of the programs got ...
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Mount Mac disk image (and sparse bundle) on Windows or Linux
Is it possible to mount the various disk image formats that Mac OS uses on other platforms?
I suppose one problem would be that the file system in that image is usually HFS+.
I am specifically ...
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Further compression of disk image files
Is there a way to further compress a disk image file created by the disk utility program on macs? I need to fit a 6.5G/5.5G image onto a 4.7G disk.
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Mac disk images: any real difference between 'master' and 'compressed'?
When creating a disk image (.cdr or .dmg) from a physical CD or DVD on Mac (using Disk Utility > New Image) one can choose between 'CD\DVD Master‘ and 'compressed'.
Apart from the obvious fact that a ...
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DMG file editing in Ubuntu
I have a compressed dmg file in Ubuntu. I would like open this file and add 2 files to this system and create the compressed dmg file.
I open to doing the same in Windows if its not possible on ...
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Windows tools to open encrypted DMG files?
Does anyone know of a tool that will supports encrypted .dmg (OSX disk image) files under Windows?
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How do software .dmg files mount or work in OS X?
I am a new Mac user and have an iMac. Coming from the Windows world where everything is installer based, OS X seems to mount .dmg files and run them. I've seen this happen prior to an install and ...
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Mac OS X - installing software via DMG vs. *nix command line style
New Mac owner here, but long time Linux user. Can anyone describe to me the differences between installing a piece of software, such as Subversion, from a .dmg image as opposed to compiling and ...
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I'm unable to mount a DMG, getting a “no mountable filesystems” error
I downloaded a DMG of some commercial Mac software (CSSEdit) but I found that the DMG wouldn't mount. I tried another image from the same company, and then a number of images I had laying around from ...
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Mount a .DMG over the network?
Is it possible to mount a .DMG file that is on an SMB share on the network, or do I have to copy it locally first?
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How to convert or burn a .DMG image file on Windows?
What software can be recommended to burn a Mac created .DMG file on a Windows operating system? Ideally it should be free, or at least reasonably priced.
Or, as an alternative, an application convert ...
