Make a macOS install DVD in Windows PC from DMG/ISO imageĪpple has changed the file architecture of the macOS installer from OS X Mavericks 10.9. Alternatively, if your Mac doesn’t have a DVD drive, you may consider making a macOS USB in Windows. For this file size you need a dual-layer (8.5 GB) DVD. The macOS High Sierra and Catalina DMG files have a size around 5.8 and 8 GB.
Click on the File tab at the top, and select the option “Open Disk Image” to load macOS installer DMG file to the software.Run Transmac app as administrator, by right-clicking on its icon.Now, download and install TransMac version 12 (15-day trial) for Windows 10 from this link.Install the free Windows application 7-ZIP ( download) to extract and locate InstallESD.DMG, which includes all files to form a bootable macOS DVD.You could also find a copy from the Internet. In the video we use OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion downloaded from the Mac app store.( Check below for macOS High Sierra and Catalina) However, the procedure is somewhat the same if you download a compatible macOS High sierra or Catalina in DMG format for creating a USB disk on a PC. Here we use an old version of Mac OS, Mountain Lion, to make a bootable macOS DVD.
#BURN DMG TO BOOTABLE DVD WINDOWS MAC OS X#
Let’s start with the process of burning a Mac OS X installer in DMG format (InstallESD.DMG) to a DVD in Windows environment. Steps to burn DMG file to a bootable macOS DVD in Windows Eventually, I restored my iMac to OS X 10.8 using the same DVD as macOS installation disc. Later, I found a way to burn macOS DMG file to a bootable DVD on my Windows laptop. The only option left for me was buying an OS X Lion Installer disc as the Internet Recovery required a lot of bandwidth and time. I accidentally formatted the hard disk of my iMac and lost the recovery partition in the process. My first experience with burning a DMG file to DVD was actually on Windows, back in 2013, when Mountain Lion was the operating system. A macOS installation package with DMG extension enables creating bootable installer DVDs. Therefore, it is possible to mount a DMG file on a virtual disk or write it to a DVD and access its contents.
#BURN DMG TO BOOTABLE DVD WINDOWS FOR MAC#
DMG is a disk image format for Mac just like an ISO file in Windows.
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