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Image Mounter
Developer(s)Arsenal Recon
Initial releaseSeptember 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)
Written inC / VB.NET
Operating systemWindows
TypeComputer Forensics
LicenseDual
Websitehttp://ArsenalRecon.com

Arsenal Image Mounter mounts the contents of disk images as complete disks in Microsoft Windows. Arsenal Image Mounter includes a virtual SCSI adapter (via a unique Storport miniport driver) which allows users to benefit from disk-specific features in Windows like integration with Disk Manager, access to Volume Shadow Copies, and more. As far as Windows is concerned, the contents of disk images mounted by Arsenal Image Mounter are “real” SCSI disks.


Development

Many image mounting solutions mount the contents of disk images in Windows as shares or partitions (rather than complete disks), which limits their usefulness. While developing the digital forensics tool Registry Recon, Arsenal found existing image mounting solutions lacking and built Arsenal Image Mounter. Ongoing development of Arsenal Image Mounter has broader goals which benefit the entire information technology community in addition to digital forensics and incident response practitioners.

Arsenal Image Mounter's Storport miniport driver is written in C and its user mode API library is written in VB.NET, which facilitates easy integration with .NET 4.0 applications. Arsenal chose a dual license for Arsenal Image Mounter to allow its royalty-free use by open source projects (AGPL v3[1] compatible), but require financial support from commercial projects.


Features

Supported Operating Systems


Supported File Systems

Any filesystem with a driver installed is supported
NTFS, FAT32, ReFS, exFAT, HFS+, UFS, and ext3 have all been tested


Supported Image Formats

  • Raw (dd)
  • EnCase (E01… if libewf is available)
  • Virtual Machine Disk Files (VHD, VDI, XVA, VMDK… if discutils is available)


See also

References

  1. ^ The Affero General Public License

Category:Free software Category:Computer forensics Category:Digital forensics software

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