You can mount it and treat it like any other CD or DVD if you’d like to. You’ll find the disk image as DMG file format in whatever the destination was you chose to save the disk image file to. Making the disk image is usually fairly quick, but give it a few minutes to complete.

Choose the destination and name where you want to save the disk image to, and whether or not you want it to be read/write, read-only, or encrypted, then click “Save” to begin the process of ripping the disk image from the DVD / CD.Pull down the “File” menu and choose “New Image” and select “New Image from ‘Disk Name'” from teh menu options.Open the “Disk Utility” application via the Utilities folder, or by hitting Command+Spacebar and searching for “Disk Utility” and hitting return.Insert the DVD / CD into the drive and let the Mac find it.Connect the CD/DVD drive to the Mac if you haven’t done so already.The Apple SuperDrive works well, and there are tons of third party CD/DVD drive options available as well for reasonable prices. You’ll obviously need a CD/DVD drive to complete this process. How to Create a Disk Image from DVD / CD on Mac with Disk Utility We’ll show you how you can easily create a disk image file (dmg) on the Mac, turning any CD or DVD into the DMG using Disk Utility.

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