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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™+ i$ H# o" }8 W, A& L, V
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; U1 Z |, Y* {5 i+ D1 M1 ], @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.
) E, P L9 ], f5 w) J$ ~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.8 |+ t: q1 ]. J! M; m+ \6 M
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.# ?/ N1 T+ }' R# ~3 o
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( d b2 `0 S. P+ j) VPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package; a" V4 _( O. l
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OSFMount supports the mounting of the following Windows image file formats:# Y) {! D4 k9 B2 K) n! V& I
7 a' h7 L- P& R3 ^! z! jImage 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.) v8 [2 O+ |1 @( N. _7 _+ T
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System requirements
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Windows XP, Vista & Win 7. [( O7 r! C( \3 z' h; W$ l4 J
Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008
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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. $ Z! N" x; i4 v2 c, p% G
Users must have administrator privileges.0 t: O( b6 z5 h+ S1 @* L+ p
RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
7 a& F6 q* H' y' `8 {Disk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |