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( C2 s! \7 \. s4 @/ B; H# ?OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™2 T4 M Y+ U% b8 ~/ Y; C# B# ]
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Overview! U9 L5 S2 ^9 W" `- a0 Z- F! y( d
$ v: b1 M" k1 l# @' B4 f1 x: ?OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition) in Windows with a drive letter. You can then analyze the disk image file with PassMark OSForensics™ by using the mounted volume's drive letter. By default, the image files are mounted as read only so that the original image files are not altered.
: y* d0 o* I2 C. B; @OSFMount also supports the creation of RAM disks, basically a disk mounted into RAM. This generally has a large speed benefit over using a hard disk. As such this is useful with applications requiring high speed disk access, such a database applications, games (such as game cache files) and browsers (cache files). A second benefit is security, as the disk contents are not stored on a physical hard disk (but rather in RAM) and on system shutdown the disk contents are not persistent.
( U5 @' u5 q6 {/ f0 ^) SOSFMount supports mounting images of CDs in .ISO format , which can be useful when a particular CD is used often and the speed of access is important.- e2 H' {5 U [1 x8 Z6 Q- B) s
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Please click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package! G" N$ f, [5 d* e* s5 W& T, \
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OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:
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3 D( [2 W& h, }; t1 w( ]| Image Format | Read | Write | Mount as RAM drive | Convert to Image file | Extend | Format | | Raw Image (.IMG, .DD) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Raw CD Image (.ISO, .BIN) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Split Raw Image (.00n) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Nero Burning ROM Image (.NRG) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | System Deployment Image (.SDI) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Advanced Forensics Format Images* (AFF) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Advanced Forensics Format Images w/ meta data* (AFM) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Advanced Forensics Format Directories* (AFD) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | VMWare Image (.VMDK) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | EnCase EWF (.E01) |  |  |  |  |  |  | | SMART EWF (.S01) |  |  |  |  |  |  | * The supported version of Advanced Forensics Format is AFFv3 with zlib compression support. Encryption and signatures are not supported.
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System requirements
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7
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, B0 T7 i6 q- P% P7 O. b, b9 D% ~2 `It is recommended that 64-bit Windows is used when large disk image files are to be mounted. The 32-bit version can only be used on 32-bit Windows. The 64-bit version can only be used on 64-bit Windows.
0 w0 p8 E; g, T. q$ TUsers must have administrator privileges.
2 R3 U$ S! u- p: w0 X$ R8 VRAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
% }9 i( k i5 @4 M* YDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |