Mounting HD image in windows

ivanadrive · Post by **ivanadrive** » Thu May 20, 2004 6:27 pm

Here's a working solution to get files from PearPC OS X to Windows:

Install Daemon tools cd-rom emulator and mount the image.
Now, windows won't be able to read the file system since it's HFS+, so you'll need some other software like MacDrive from mediafour.com too.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 20, 2004 6:39 pm

can you give a little more explain ?

robojam · Post by **robojam** » Thu May 20, 2004 7:13 pm

I found it here: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/ ... ry&catid=5

MDZ61384 · Post by **MDZ61384** » Thu May 20, 2004 7:22 pm

"you'll need some other software like MacDrive from mediafour.com too"

perhaps this is what he wanted elaboration on. I have daemon tools...but woudln't know what to do after that. any suggestions?

ivanadrive · Post by **ivanadrive** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:03 am

Once you have installed both Daemon tools (other virtual cd drives might work too, but I havent tested those) and MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/), and rebooted, mount your HD image by right clicking on the Daemon tools icon in the tray (it's blue and square), select "Virtual CD/DVD-ROM > Device 0: No media > Mount image" (You have to setup at least one virtual drive, see http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/ ... #helpstart on how to do that), and select the HD image (you will problably have to set file type to "All files (*.*)" to see the image). Now it should be mounted and MacDrive will automatically make the image readable for windows.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:42 am

I have done this and I can access the drive but I canÂ´ move or copy anything to the drive Â´cos itÂ´s protected.

and I canÂ´ remove the protection.

ivanadrive · Post by **ivanadrive** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:48 pm

You can only get stuff FROM the HD image in this way, if you want to put stuff on, you need to create an ISO file with software like UltraISO or WinISO and use it as a CD and copy the files in OS X.

MDZ61384 · Post by **MDZ61384** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:51 pm

thanks for the help...I"ll try that once my install is actually working, lol

dylan2000 · Post by **dylan2000** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:57 pm

mounting the .img file as a CD drive is kind of dumb because you can't write to it. and making an ISO file and mounting that in OS X is an awful lot of hassle just to get some files readable by the mac OS.

why not just mount the .img as a logical drive in windows and read and write like a normal drive??

you can do that with Filedisk and it will make your life a whole hell of a lot easier than how you were doing it.

hope that helps

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:04 pm

I donÂ´ get how filedisk works...

...can you make a short guide on how to.

ivanadrive · Post by **ivanadrive** » Fri May 21, 2004 10:08 pm

dylan2000 wrote:mounting the .img file as a CD drive is kind of dumb because you can't write to it. and making an ISO file and mounting that in OS X is an awful lot of hassle just to get some files readable by the mac OS.

why not just mount the .img as a logical drive in windows and read and write like a normal drive??

you can do that with Filedisk and it will make your life a whole hell of a lot easier than how you were doing it.

hope that helps

Interesting piece of software, but did you actually test this? To write to the image containing OS X, FileDisk would have to be able to handle the HFS+ file sytem. As far as I can tell from the documentation, it doesn't. Besides I wouldn't start messing with the HD image outside PearPC since an install takes so much time.

dylan2000 · Post by **dylan2000** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:19 pm

yes i have thoroughly tested it by using it

the HFS bit is handled by Macdrive or something similar and with the .img file mounted as a drive it's just the same as plugging a mac drive into the PC.

as for damaging the image file, well this is a program which works with .img files in the same way others work with .zip or .iso or .doc files so i can't really see the risks of damage being any greater. on other OSes mounting an img file is a pretty everyday thing, after all.

for the paranoid i would maybe suggest copying that .img file as soon as OS X is installed on it and then zipping or rar-ing it. compression should be at the very least 50% since it's only half full but i bet it would compress way more than that and then you have a virgin OS X backup.

ZOleg · Post by **ZOleg** » Sat May 22, 2004 5:04 am

Yes it works!!!!
I installed MacDrive 5.0.13 and filedisk and now i mount 3Gb hd image file with installed MacOS x 10.2.8 and read and write file to image file!!!

ivanadrive · Post by **ivanadrive** » Sat May 22, 2004 6:15 pm

Cool! I'll give FileDisk a try :D

Diodak · Post by **Diodak** » Sat May 22, 2004 8:43 pm

Maybe FileDisk works with Mac OS X 10.2 HD-file, but it doesn't working with OS X 10.3 file

FileDIsk mounts image, but MacDrive can't recognize it

It's not a problem of MacDrive or OS 10.3 image, because this image works with MacDrive when mounted as a CD in DaemonTools. Is there any way to mount Panther image R/W on Windows??

zone · Post by **zone** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:47 pm

It works for me! (10.3) filedisk + macdrive

Lynx · Post by **Lynx** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:13 am

After having finally worked out to run filedisk u need to put it in the the filedisk.sys in the system32/ folder..

add the filedisk.reg file to the registry by double clicking on it and hitting ok..

than reboot...

Once you've done this, start -> run -> cmd.exe

go into the filedisk folder

filedisk /mount 0 c:\pearpc\PantherImage.img y: to mount it to y:

if you get an error that its in use, either close pearpc (can't have both going) or just try it again...

macdrive does read 10.3 images, i'm doing it @ home, and u can read and write files to it, installed a number of things including office 2004 this way and upgraded to 10.3.3...

Also to unmount type filedisk /umount y:

Hope that helps..

Lynx

robojam · Post by **robojam** » Wed May 26, 2004 1:36 pm

Has anyone tried WinISO to get files into an *.ISO file for OSX to access?

http://www.winiso.com

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:10 pm

robojam wrote:Has anyone tried WinISO to get files into an *.ISO file for OSX to access?

http://www.winiso.com

Yes I do. It works. 10.3

CaptainValor · Post by **CaptainValor** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:53 pm

Too bad MacDrive costs 50 bucks. Otherwise I would try this.

desertboy · Post by **desertboy** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:54 pm

robojam wrote:Has anyone tried WinISO to get files into an *.ISO file for OSX to access?

http://www.winiso.com

I can confirm this works to, if only changecd button worked or real/virtualcd(Like Daemon tools) drives worked.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:35 pm

or you could just use the networking patch to transfer files :OP
c'est tres rapide!

Mounting HD image in windows

Mounting HD image in windows

I cant mount OS X 10.3 Panther HD-file on Windows :(