Install a MacOS instance inside VirtualBox on my PC.In order to continue to seamlessly use said files (which are stored on a NAS) on my PC I struggled for days untill I found this solution throug which I will guide you step by step: On my Mac I very actively use encrypted DMG and Sparsebundle files.

My MacBook is currently in for repair and my only other device is a Windows 10 PC. Let me explain how I solved this mean issue: In the catastrophic event I lose all my Macs and need to access the backup from another O/S, I'll probably boot into a 'Hackintosh VM' or something. This has the advantage that my backup drive can also serve as bootable backup - it's HFS+ at the root. This is fixable by mounting it in Windows again and running chkdsk on it, but as it happened fairly often, it was rather inconvenient.įor this reason I went back to Mac sparsebundle, which comes free my home directory on a Carbon Copy Cloner-made backup. For instance, if you forget to dismount the image properly, the NTFS metadata may be corrupted and next time you'll be able to mount them in read only mode. I found that so formatted image could be accessed from Windows correctly, by mounting in via Windows version of TrueCrypt. I created a blank (without filesystem) images with TrueCrypt, and then formatted them with NTFS. I have actually solved the need for cross-platform accessible encrypted backup by using TrueCrypt and NTFS-3G drivers for Mac.

How to backup mac disk image