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* z7 F: S% s. J$ U- @OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™
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Overview
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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.9 E: l* l7 H( F# v) `9 _4 N
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.) K! x& ~: \; q0 L
OSFMount 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.* B" B' l8 Z4 i
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Please click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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3 h- {1 p6 d' G( i. I+ ^3 mSupported File Extensions' _/ f0 v& c/ _4 r, M- Y, W; T" \8 \
5 c1 m" z7 S; Q5 M3 G( QOSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:
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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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) p/ F) H- f+ U; C% y: m- KSystem requirements
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7 L# O1 E( |4 [8 D
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32bit and 64bit support
6 n/ N6 W+ \8 N- X b& B1 f; gIt 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. 3 x2 @6 } _- Q& c& E
Users must have administrator privileges.% l+ ^3 y) X7 {# c% K1 q* Z" Z
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
+ p( l4 `- Y- W6 pDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |