| Developer(s) | Apple Computer |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Disk image emulator |
| Website | www.apple.com |
You can also try mounting the disc image file by opening the Disk Utility application. Press Command+Space, type Disk Utility, and press Enter to open it. Click the “File” menu, select “Open Image,” and select the disc image you want to mount. WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it. Arsenal image mounter handles the disk images as a whole drive. As far as Windows system is concerned, the contents of disk images mounted by AIM are real SCSI disk, which allows its users to take advantage from some disk specific features like Integration with Disk Manager and Access to volume shadow copies and much more.
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.
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]
What Is Disk Image Mounter
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)
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]
- ^ 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 Image Mounter App
- Disk Copy - this program's predecessor.
- hdiutil - command line tool counterpart that ships with macOS
- FastDMG - free alternative replacement for DiskImageMounter