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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™5 j" k" r# K! _5 [ i7 V
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Overview3 s9 K; J% X8 P
+ G8 z( c2 b1 p3 k; KOSFMount 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.
; }+ m3 `$ n* l6 `8 m, G5 l% HOSFMount 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.
, g' Q5 g O+ |, m: tOSFMount 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.+ X8 `7 ]0 W# p8 A
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Please click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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Supported File Extensions9 ?7 g' B/ a& Q2 m- K; B8 m, S7 o5 ~& k
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OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:7 Z+ B& E9 {$ V8 u3 _, c8 V1 n8 l
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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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% m6 T3 W5 p7 K0 u6 CSystem requirements* ?; J' H$ \1 ^5 r% T6 w1 D6 ^
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7
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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. 8 G1 R: B. l- ]: l1 ?
Users must have administrator privileges.+ V% a2 J, Y$ ~5 w
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.$ M, O0 {/ N4 ?# ^0 S' r
Disk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |