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, ]" b: x& B8 b8 ]- fOSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™4 s4 L; b* F3 X% Z
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7 X4 _& E8 y. v# QOverview
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9 Q+ e- L! [2 z' d. jOSFMount 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.
+ s3 P% \1 O5 o$ z6 JOSFMount 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.) l/ L4 K/ ?( l( W
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.; [8 C5 y9 x+ T: o/ ]. d
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; H5 m/ @* _# V* ^+ Z4 K5 P6 fPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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) f) K- ?) }* s+ c# M& jSupported File Extensions7 W' s8 g) J& F" u& C5 h/ ]- g
, {6 l& }, o# r3 I U$ R5 _! _/ iOSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:; Z D$ ~ {$ U8 v) y
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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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System requirements
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/ ^; }2 e0 w. G7 PWindows XP, Vista & Win 7( Q) e$ x& e7 T: }- k4 Q
Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008
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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. * h7 u5 M( L! N7 m+ f7 M
Users must have administrator privileges.5 ^, I* x5 w, @* G3 s
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.( ]* v, t6 d B3 D. g. z
Disk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |