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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™! h9 ?$ [9 f" ^# }1 \4 t9 ~
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Overview, @6 H9 u$ a7 J3 @8 a$ U
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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.
9 s: _$ \+ t' [% ]+ {# `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.% A! Q5 v: d3 A1 V9 D
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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; N' V4 |( n6 uPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package y. z9 P" r5 }6 u# ?
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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.9 u. G( n+ H0 ~
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System requirements
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e$ P9 c- D5 m, _4 LWindows 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. ) }) S k8 L6 p8 y8 D, L
Users must have administrator privileges.
' R j# O! [0 ~# I' k, |RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
% F3 r: V- ~' o: H/ d5 v; D' N lDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |