In some cases, a disk image will not mount in Mac OS X, giving the error message "Unable to mount disk. Broken pipe," or another. There are various potential ...

Disk image tools allow you to take physical discs and drives—DVDs, hard drives, and other media—and turn them into virtual images for ease of storage and manipulation. Here's a look at five of the ...

March 30, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The MacApper weblog has a simple, beginner's tutorial for creating and using virtual disks on your Mac using the ...

One of the many benefits of Mac OS X is the built-in support for a variety of disk image formats, including ISO, IMG, CDR, and the popular DMG. Disk images are exceptionally useful for storing small ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

One useful OS X feature is the ability to create disk images. A disk image is a single file that, when double-clicked, appears like a typical hard drive to the operating system. (Most software you ...

I just tried this on one of my spare image files. I see the same problem. However, if you launch disk utility, you'll see the images in the disk image ssection with an eject button next to it. If you ...

It’s always a good idea to have an Image Backup of your OS. So, if there’s any even of misfortune, you don’t end up losing your data but can restore it fully from Repair Disc or an external hard drive ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

OS X has a number of options for handling disk images—settings for such things as automatically opening them, moving Internet-enabled images to the trash after opening, verifying checksums, and more.

In the latest releases of both my ebooks on backups (“Take Control of Mac OS X Backups” and “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard“), I include sidebars titled “(Sparse) Bundles of Joy,” in which I ...