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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™7 b7 J* {& x2 J# E
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b/ H& B2 c4 t g8 }1 z1 o3 eOSFMount 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.0 B- k! O1 |: w' j2 D$ Y
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.
- o y8 K; K' A: O# W8 POSFMount 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. k L0 s+ U5 ]4 i1 @9 n
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" k, B6 H& i x- |Please click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:
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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.& z" f, ^- O/ k6 t3 G' ~6 H" K
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7
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$ ]9 C9 E' O# a6 b# M" n( F6 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. 5 t$ I% e8 H4 a* K! {) {
Users must have administrator privileges.5 s* _' d5 ]' X
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
, J, V* P- }6 y1 y& D* NDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |