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Disk Utility error 3

Hi guys,


Trying to make a .iso image from a disc.

I go to Disk Utility and select the drive

Then I click File > New Image > Image From...


The process starts fine
Gets past "reading whole disk"

Then says "operation failed"


Under "details" it says "operation failed with status 5" but also says com.apple.diskutility error 3
Tried Googling and no consistent info about this?



El Cap

MBP mid-2012


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MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 1:26 AM

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Jan 6, 2017 5:11 PM in response to Community User

HI, any solution or comment about this topic?

same happened to me, trying to create an AKAI CD-ROM image (propietary format unmountable by OS X) with Disk Utility OS X El Capitan.


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Luckily I had an old HD with OSX Mountain Lion and works fine creating the dmg images (In Mountain Lion the Disk Utility app displays below the DVD a grey "disk9s0" that I use as target)


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Looks like this is a problem with the new disk utility in El Capitan (I don't know about Sierra).


The thing is I don't want to be changing my HD every time I need this kind of disk image, Is more convenient to work everything in El Capitan.


Any suggestions would be welcome

Disk Utility error 3

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