A few posts down from that quote it was discussed that cygwin can't mount images. I've since moved on and just simply use a linux virtual machine. SIFT works great and autoexports the samba share RO. For more enterprise level work I have a dedicated linux box that I put images on and remotely mount. I gave up on mount image pro (issues with the cache buffer updating A times during operation), and I am not going to pay for ASR smart mount...sorry but linux mount works just fine for me.

ImDisk is now working. Don't know why it went through a spell of not working, but haven't had a problem recently. Funny thing is that I did not change anything either. Not sure what its problem was for a while.

hogfly wrote:

....and I am not going to pay for ASR smart mount...s

Even if the evaluation version is free?

@MMachor
Everything is well that ends well....

@hogfly
@keydet89

I don't get it we have at least two working solutions, VDK and IMDISK.

VDK has the advantages:
1) that it connects as \\.\PhysicalDriven
2) that using a .pln file it can mount the drive image with it's correct CHS geometry
3) that it allows access to MBR and hidden sectors

BOTH have command line support and a GUI or pseudo-GUI.

Out of curiosity, what would be the reason for a more complex solution "VM running Linux", "evaluation versions" or CYGWIN?

@keydet89
Maybe you are interested in this:
www.eterlogic.com/Prod...veSDK.html

jaclaz

jaclaz,

I'm still trying to come up with an end-to-end solution for mounting using ImDisk...

jaclaz,
It apparently doesn't work on 64bit server 2008 without modifying the OS behavior and I'm not about to jeopardize the integrity of my machine to load the driver.

I got ImDisk working on XP and mounted an XP image just fine (just one partition). I'm including this in WFA 2/e

Yeah me too. It's a good utility, just doesn't meet all of my needs unfortunately.

such as?

Well as I just pointed out it doesn't work with server 2008 64 bit, whereas a vm or a linux box with a samba share works just fine for analysis.