Convert Dmg To Iso With Disk Utility

19.11.2019

Convert Dmg To Iso With Disk Utility File

Nov 16, 2018 Method 2: How to Convert DMG to ISO on macOS (Disk Utility) Mac OS X and macOS offer an easier way to convert DMG to ISO, which is only natural because DMG is the native disk image format used by Apple. The Disk Utility that's built into Mac will help you do the conversion from DMG to ISO. Follow the steps below to convert your disk image files. You can now burn the ISO file to a disk. There are plenty of other tools that claim to help you convert DMG files, however this is the most reliable way I have come across. Have you ever needed to convert a DMG file? Let us know how you did it in the comments.

So you downloaded an .iso image, and now you want to convert it to .dmg format? How can I convert .dmg to a Windows-compatible .iso on Mac? Don’t bother downloading any third party software, you can easily convert .dmg to .iso or .iso to .dmg format using the Terminal or Disk Utility on Mac OS X.

Method 1: Convert Between .DMG and .ISO Using Terminal

Mac OS X has a command line tool called hdiutil which allows you to create, mount and convert different types of disk image with ease. Here’s how to convert .dmg to .iso format using the Terminal:

Just press Ctrl + Alt + T on your keyboard to open the Terminal.
Enter the following command into the Terminal window, assuming that you’ve put the .dmg file on your desktop.
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o ~/Desktop/filename.iso ~/Desktop/filename.dmg
When the process finishes, you’ll get an ISO image that is compatible with Windows, Linux, Ubuntu and Mac.

If you need to convert a disk image from .iso to .dmg, just execute the following command in the Terminal window:
hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/filename.iso -format UDRW -o ~/Desktop/filename.dmg

Sit back and wait for the process to complete.

Method 2: Convert Between .DMG and .ISO Using Disk Utility

Just launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). In the menu bar at the top of the screen, select Images -> Convert.
Browse to the .DMG or ISO file you would like to convert, select it and click on the Choose button.
In the pop-up window, select Desktop as your destination. In order to convert .dmg to .iso, make sure to choose DVD/CD master as the Image Format. Click on Convert.
If you want to convert .iso to .dmg, set the Image Format to “compressed” instead. Click on Convert and you’ll have a .dmg file ready to use.
Simply rename the converted .cdr file to .ISO and you’ll get a Mac-compatible .ISO image. However, a renamed file won’t work on Windows or Linux. To make a Windows/Linux/Mac compatible .ISO file, you have to convert the .cdr file to .iso format using this command:
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o ~/Desktop/filename.iso ~/Desktop/filename.cdr

Conclusion

DMG is a disk image format commonly used by Mac OS X, but it’s practically unusable on Windows or Linux platform. After converting .dmg to .iso on your MacOS, you can copy it to any Windows or Linux computer for burning or mounting.

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We have found 7 software records in our database eligible for .iso to .dmg file format conversion.

Converting ISO disk images to DMG format should be easy enough nowadays and can be done in most, if not all modern disk image handling utilities, but it is unlikely you will find a dedicated iso to dmg converter only.

In most cases iso to dmg conversion is achieved because for Mac users .dmg files might be easier to handle compared to .iso files, but most recent disk management utilities for Mac have no trouble with either of these formats.

However, keep in mind that this won't work if you are trying to convert some Windows program installation disks to Mac one, that is simply not possible.

Updated: February 4, 2020

Microsoft Windows software - convert iso to dmg on Windows

AnyToISO

A disk image converter for Microsoft Windows

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from iso file	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
to dmg file	Yes, AnyToISO supports dmg file conversion as a target file type.	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned iso to dmg. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

gBurner

One of the many CD/DVD burning tools

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

PowerISO

Application used to manage DAA and other disk images

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

Apple macOS / Mac OS X software - convert iso to dmg on OS X

Apple Disk Utility

A disk mounting utility from Mac

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

DropDMG

A program for creating Mac OS X disk images

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

AnyToISO for Mac

Mac version of popular disk image converting program

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

DMGConverter

A fisk image converter utility for Mac formats

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Additional links: Open iso file, Open dmg file

ISO

An iso file extension is generally used for common CD/DVD disk image format. ISOs are used as a standard backup format of physical disks and are widely supported by burning or virtualization software.