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OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™
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Overview
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- u3 o P& B! QOSFMount 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.
4 ^; A0 t# k5 [& V) s1 Q1 mOSFMount 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.9 |" z+ h( a' U
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.' L; Q+ z/ y0 v3 R
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7 y" R3 h0 @7 y9 b$ p' j n' J' EPlease click below to download the OSFMount V1.5.1013 installation package
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Supported File Extensions
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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.* b1 I' N1 d" D6 [+ T" v; F) F8 X3 n
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! L1 h5 E$ m% Z9 `# PWindows XP, Vista & Win 7
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32bit and 64bit support3 T+ _) R) p2 e
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.
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( Q& V! C6 s) @& t! q1 }RAM: 1GB. When mounting large disk images, the more RAM the better.
, n2 P9 }; |* H; fDisk space: 1 MB of free hard disk space for the installation files. |