Old Forum: Recommended tools for mounting... (danielmlewis)
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:07 pm
Hi Alex,
First up, I was very excited to find you application. At work, on a regular basis we recieve data from customers on USB thumb drives, the data from each customer is different, and changes each week. We need a way to copy the entire contents of the USB drives to a Hard disk for long term storage. Your tool suits us very well as we can image the USB drives, and save them directly to an external hard disk. Your tool also lets us do multile USB drives in parallel, which is great.
I note on your instructions, that you reccommend winImage for viewing the contents of IMG files created using your tool. I have installed winimage, and can sucessfuly view the contents of the IMG files. This is good, but in order to work with any of the files I need to extract them, which doubles the space required, and increases the time taken to work with the files.
I have seen several tools which can mount a disk image file as a virtual drive under windows. I have installed two tools WinCDemu http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ and OSFMount http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html which are supposed to be able to mount IMG files. I have tested these tools with other image types, like ISO and they seem to work fine, but when I try and open an image crated with your tool, they fail with numeric error codes, which don't seem to have a meaning with them.
Can you point me to a Windows tool which can be used to mount the IMG files of USB? The two i've tried don't work, although they claim to monut IMG files.
Thank you for your help
Cheers
Daniel
First up, I was very excited to find you application. At work, on a regular basis we recieve data from customers on USB thumb drives, the data from each customer is different, and changes each week. We need a way to copy the entire contents of the USB drives to a Hard disk for long term storage. Your tool suits us very well as we can image the USB drives, and save them directly to an external hard disk. Your tool also lets us do multile USB drives in parallel, which is great.
I note on your instructions, that you reccommend winImage for viewing the contents of IMG files created using your tool. I have installed winimage, and can sucessfuly view the contents of the IMG files. This is good, but in order to work with any of the files I need to extract them, which doubles the space required, and increases the time taken to work with the files.
I have seen several tools which can mount a disk image file as a virtual drive under windows. I have installed two tools WinCDemu http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ and OSFMount http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html which are supposed to be able to mount IMG files. I have tested these tools with other image types, like ISO and they seem to work fine, but when I try and open an image crated with your tool, they fail with numeric error codes, which don't seem to have a meaning with them.
Can you point me to a Windows tool which can be used to mount the IMG files of USB? The two i've tried don't work, although they claim to monut IMG files.
Thank you for your help
Cheers
Daniel