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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™1 @- H( \5 ?( ?0 X6 k1 H
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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.
( E3 m- J8 \# F' E) f5 z+ g, oOSFMount 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.
( ^4 i8 r2 h9 j g$ g0 \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.5 Q; ~6 F$ l+ B& m! V! o$ O
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Please click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package. a& W2 q/ L$ s4 R! K
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! S. b+ K, w8 e1 |Supported File Extensions
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OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:
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/ p2 f. c1 M) Z6 U$ w$ ^& nImage 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.) L# t0 }/ m4 Q( n- y
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% o' ^2 j3 [2 L9 ~System requirements
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7
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32bit and 64bit support9 L: R; K/ s' i T) e* Q6 Y
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. ( T. a) }" R. X. p3 f) \3 b* P
Users must have administrator privileges.3 h( V8 K- [+ ]6 O( @
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
/ a* J6 Z0 f/ `1 s$ l+ jDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |