Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your 2MG file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert 2MG to another file type
To convert your 2MG file to another format, you need CiderPress or other Disk Image software.
Convert a file to 2MG
To convert other file formats to the "Retrocomputing Disk Image" file type, you need software like CiderPress or a similar tool.
About 2MG files
A .2mg file is a 2IMG Universal Disk Image, a container format developed to standardize disk archiving for the Apple IIgs and Apple II platforms. Unlike raw sector dumps like DSK (DOS 3.3 order) or PO (ProDOS order), a .2mg file includes a proprietary 64-byte header that defines critical attributes like the disk's write-protection status, volume number, and format version (ProDOS vs. DOS 3.3). While this metadata ensures data integrity in modern emulators like Sweet16 and GSplus, it creates a issue: the file cannot be mounted by the host operating system (Windows/macOS) or recognized by older emulators that expect a raw bitstream. Users frequently need to convert .2mg files to DSK or PO to run software on specific hardware emulators (like the Floppy Emu) or to extract individual documents using tools like CiderPress. Because .2mg images often contain 800KB (3.5" disk) or hard drive data, simply renaming them to DSK will corrupt the file; the header must be stripped and the sector order potentially swapped.
Convert.Guru analyzes your 2MG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert 2MG file to G, CC, ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2 or RAW, you can use CiderPress or similar software from the "Apple II Disk Emulation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to 2MG, try CiderPress or another comparable tool in the "Apple II Disk Emulation" category.
The 2MG Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our 2MG converter.