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9 B4 Q [% p: c+ h. M$ F/ D; NOSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™
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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.
. z' p5 Q7 K: M) D- {3 COSFMount 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.7 B; X o: R; t( N% s4 K3 v" Y
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.
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! \; R( |( J5 y( ?3 E9 PPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package* p3 H, @7 M, x4 h
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" \8 \2 R1 e$ ]/ [2 K( s% pOSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:% r% b* p+ M- u
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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.6 o7 a d+ R, t) ^+ A5 N2 V
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0 Q; ~# ]4 M. b7 [System requirements, ]3 `( q/ y$ P! E2 @) w- |
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Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008
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% A3 d: U* ?" L+ fIt 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., p. D( M8 P) k8 z) c K
Disk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |