cclloyd9785 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Is there a way i can take my snow leopard user DVD, and make a bootable USB out of it on Windows. My friends mac doesnt have a DVD drive. I already was able to rip it into a DMG file. so how can i take that and make it a bootable USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noctrl Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 you might want to try a different approach: let your friend partition and format the usb pendrive for guid and hfs+, then use 'cp -a' under a linux distro in order to copy the dvd-files onto the usb pendrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajas Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 i believe u can use Disk Utility in MAC to Restore the dmg to the flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclloyd9785 Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 yea i get wat u guys r saying. it broke though. thats y i need a USB. we were gonna reinstall 10.6 so i need a way to burn the retail .dmg to my 8GB USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patnucci Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 yea i get wat u guys r saying. it broke though. thats y i need a USB. we were gonna reinstall 10.6 so i need a way to burn the retail .dmg to my 8GB USB. Transmac for Windows (2-week trial) can format USB drives for mac and restore .dmg files to USB drives. Download Transmac and install in Windows In the right-side panel of Transmac, right click on your USB Drive >> Format Disk >> Format with Disk Image (see attached screenshot) Point to your .dmg file and click Open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclloyd9785 Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 ok i did all that, and it said i had to expand the .dmg so i did. Now when i tried, it just said Error writing to Mac Disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer75 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Transmac for Windows (2-week trial) can format USB drives for mac and restore .dmg files to USB drives. Download Transmac and install in Windows In the right-side panel of Transmac, right click on your USB Drive >> Format Disk >> Format with Disk Image (see attached screenshot) Point to your .dmg file and click Open. Is there a trick to get it to see your USB drive? Mine won't show up in transmac. I've managed to open up a image I created from my SD card using macdrive and I was able to edit that image. If I could just get it to see my USB stick i'd be set. Edit - I figured it out. Had to run as admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AladdinTE Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 ok i did all that, and it said i had to expand the .dmg so i did. Now when i tried, it just said Error writing to Mac Disk. I am getting the same error. Did u somehow fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unf0rgiven Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 I am getting the same error. Did u somehow fix it? Guys why don't you give a try on this way!! incase of making OSX USB Bootable Drive on WINDOWS u need few things u can google it to find 1) 8GB USB drive (atleast or more OR USB HARD) 2) Ultra ISO 3) OSX DVD Installer 4) Windows PC (xp,vista,7) with DVD ROM And easy to get done in few steps On Windows PC Format your USB drive in normal FAT32 format Install Ultra ISO Run it ''As Adminitration'' if on Vista or Win7...put OSX Installer DVD in ROM go to 'Tools' n select 'Make DVD Image' option...n save it as Standard .ISO file on desire location Now in Ultra ISO go to 'Bootable' and choose option ''Write Disk Image...'' there you select USB Drive...brows .ISO file....choose Write Method ''USB-HDD+'' and get done in an hour may be less hope this will help and if you dont have DVD ROM available but u already have DMG file in system then u simply turn your file extension .DMG to .ISO n follow... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AladdinTE Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 and if you dont have DVD ROM available but u already have DMG file in system then u simply turn your file extension .DMG to .ISO n follow... Thanks for replying. How do i change it to iso? I renamed it but Its not that simple here....See the shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 How do i change it to iso? I renamed it but Its not that simple here....See the shot In explorer options, configure to show file extensions, then remove the .dmg extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beermacht Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 ok i did all that, and it said i had to expand the .dmg so i did. Now when i tried, it just said Error writing to Mac Disk. I am getting the same error. Did u somehow fix it? expand ?? why should that be necessary ?? i made all my install stuff with transmac and there is no need for "expanding"!! transmac is the fastest way to get it done save the dvd as dmg image and the format the usb drive with that image - thats all nothing to epand in this workflow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisMims Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Transmac for Windows (2-week trial) can format USB drives for mac and restore .dmg files to USB drives. Download Transmac and install in Windows In the right-side panel of Transmac, right click on your USB Drive >> Format Disk >> Format with Disk Image (see attached screenshot) Point to your .dmg file and click Open. Does that let you make a PC a Hackintosh without a Mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unf0rgiven Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Thanks for replying. How do i change it to iso? I renamed it but Its not that simple here....See the shot u just renames it and that won't work go to My Computer > Organise > Folder and Search Options > View >..there u check the box Show hidden files and also uncheck the option ''Hide extensions for knows file types'' and now u can change extension DMG to ISO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffnowlafflater Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Guys,I am trying to do this with an external drive instead of usb,but my drive does not show up in transmac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wehay Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I've used transmac to format and write Snow Leopard DMG (uncompressed) image to a 16GB corsair memory stick ...all went fine. However when i try to boot from it on my Dell 630 i get a error on boot "No boot sector on USB device" ..any ideas on how to check if it should be bootable and also make it bootable? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePits Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I've used transmac to format and write Snow Leopard DMG (uncompressed) image to a 16GB corsair memory stick ...all went fine. However when i try to boot from it on my Dell 630 i get a error on boot "No boot sector on USB device" ..any ideas on how to check if it should be bootable and also make it bootable? Thanks. Here's what I'm trying. I'll come back and let you know if it works: Currently having TransMac make the usb boot stick. But you say it won't be bootable... well I think we need to use a boot loader no? Ehhhh. All the guides talk about using osx to make the usb stick. My plan was to burn the DMG with TransMac (which failed. have 2 dvd's left to try) and once I had the DVD, to install it on vmware after booting it with the snowy vmware files. (a boot loader for using snow leopard on vmware)...and from there, make a real USB stick from the disk utility, having installed snow leopard on the vmware... its weird like backwards or recursive or something....kind of process. but i have not found a way to convert DMG to ISO, which would let me then mount the ISO and see it from vmware to install i think. Might just have to wait till I can get my friend to come over with his macbook pro someday. edit: 11/23 haha. I saw this earlier and it helped me figure something out, so I wanted to give thanks to the author and share what I accomplished and how. Then I found out it was Me who wrote it a month and a half ago. Well it seem to be working. Installed Snow Leopard on VMWare via a guide I found with darwin_snow. Then I use the DVD to restore to a flash drive from Disk Utility. Next step is to follow Tweak's guide here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189052. Only difference is he is using a real osx install and I am using a vmware install. Fingers crossed that it will work when I'm done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvtray37 Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Thanks, patnucci - method worked perfectly for me. I had to expand Snow Leopard as well but it wrote on to USB fine. Everything went smoothly although the installation was slower than I expected but I can only put that down to running it off of a USB stick. I was (re)installing the software on a MacBook that is compatible with OS X. I'm not sure if the same will apply to people trying to install it on hardware designed, originally, for Windows. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Thanks, patnucci - method worked perfectly for me. I had to expand Snow Leopard as well but it wrote on to USB fine. Everything went smoothly although the installation was slower than I expected but I can only put that down to running it off of a USB stick. I was (re)installing the software on a MacBook that is compatible with OS X. I'm not sure if the same will apply to people trying to install it on hardware designed, originally, for Windows. Thanks! I created a topic on using small hard drives as installers (only issue is that it would roadblock portable Hackery; the idea is pretty much desktop-only due to physical-space reasons), as there are still lots of these bigger-than-thumb-drive-but-too-small-for-regular-use hard drives (especially PATA, but some SATA) hard drives sitting on shelves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0st m0nkey Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I am getting the same error. Did u somehow fix it? sorry for the old topic bump! I was able to get it working by downloading a trial version of MacDrive for Windows and then going to modify/edit partitions and clicked on my drive. I hit 'initialize disk' and then went back to Transmac and formatted it as HSF+ then reformatted it with the expanded snow leopard image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surtarso Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I used parts of every post from this topic to make it work. I downloaded the Iatkos s2v3 (10.6.3) --google it. I used Transmac (15 days trial or google a cracked version if you like) inside Transmac, following posts here, I formated my 8gb pendrive to hfs and "burned" my iatkos ISO into it (without renaming to .DMG) I used my other pendrive (1gb) to install an image file with the bootloader for mac (http://osx.mechdrew.com/downloads/NBI_083F.img) with Win32DiskImager (http://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/0.2/0.2/+download/win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.2-r23-win32.zip) on my laptop (toshiba a205-s4777) I plugged both pendrives at the same time and pressed f-12 (might be another key on yours) to get the boot menu, and booted on USB memory the bootloader on the 1gb was loaded and recognized the 8gb one as the mac instalation DVD, just had to press enter pretty much. no mac and no dvd required. just an ISO and 2 really small softwares. I've been having a few kernell panics trying to install everything, so I have to re-install over and over on the trial and error basis, and both pendrives plugged in are working flawlessly for this. (ps.: my main PC (this one) has no cd/dvd drives (or any drives at all) and my laptop has a cd/dvd drive but it has been broken for years now, so this was my only choice.) EDIT: just a small FYI that might help some people, all my kernell panics stopped once I started booting 10.6.3 with the 32bit flag.... aparently the 64 bit side of it was not in harmony with my hardware... (which is weird since i run linux and win7 64 bits on the same pc, but anyway, though it was good to point out) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvandrei Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Hi guys, If I get the error: "did not expand .dmg file" what can I do? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I've tried this. Same error as above. Has anyone found a fix yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvandrei Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I have a solution, it worked for me: install snow leopard under vmware, format your stick in windows (before you run vmware) as FAT32, then in snow (vmware) go to disk utility and select your stick, go to erase, earse it as MAC OS Extended (journaled), then go to restore, select as image/soruce the snow .dmg (it must be in your vmware, doesn't work through shared folders, and at the destiation, dran 'n' drop the stick iamge from destkop to the destination field. Press restore, enter your admin password, and that's it! It will take some time, but it will popup with the image written on the stick, after it was successfully "restored". Now use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] burned on CD from .iso, and your stick in USB, set CV/DVD first then USB and last HDD at boot priority, after [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] loads, select the usb stick name, and follow the instructions. Please be aware of the fact that you must have a new partition ready, if you want to split an existing partition with the snow installation application, you will lose all the date on that partition. Good luck! Here you have a link http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibo...ac-os-x-on.html how to install OS (after you make the steps above). What to do in the setup process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikoperugia Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 The Transmac solution works for me (you have to expand first). On an original mac, mind you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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