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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™8 R/ |* A3 @0 l3 r
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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.( P, v! r( I; Z: U8 C
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." m" N4 y! @ K1 s- E
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.+ A2 _% l ^2 }. \' g) A
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/ H# i6 l! G# g* S% JPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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Supported File Extensions4 s2 `. G: |# h* y; Y5 f' m; m
& c- x9 A* Y8 C& |OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:
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, Q2 ]5 M( ?# f% j+ b2 [) x5 qImage 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 requirements6 L! }1 E9 k" n/ V
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32bit and 64bit support. {8 w6 j" J: k8 v0 e) p+ L2 J
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.
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RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.7 G0 i+ s1 W: U
Disk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |