I mean, apart from what the product is geared for, why "limiting" it's use to (actually rather few, believe me wink , "developers"), and somehow exclude the "end users" (which include those forensic people which are not "developers")? ?
I don't think you and I actually have a dispute here… the project is already working out as we had intended. When I refer to the "project" or "Arsenal Image Mounter", I'm referring to the code we released. Our hope was that we would release a nice foundation and other developers would build GUIs on top of it for end users, which as you've mentioned (and as I've been told via email) people are already doing… and ideally, people will also help us extend the functionality of the "core" as well.
Of course end users are welcome to use what we released on GitHub… I'm just letting people know that it wasn't geared for end users. We have other software projects (not to mention casework) that need attention, so this first release could not be all things to all people.
I hope that clears things up!
I don't think you and I actually have a dispute here…
….I hope that clears things up!
Good ) no dispute and everything clear.
jaclaz
The Arsenal Image Mounter code on GitHub has been updated
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We have also released a new, more user-friendly MountTool as a proof of concept
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One of the more significant updates - our driver now reports disk state (online/offline) on Windows 8/Server 2012. This might come in handy as people mount disk images of the same drive, causing disk signature collisions (and yes, people seem to be doing this quite a bit!).
We are looking into adding more mount options (other than Read Only) which would include Write-Temporary, Write Overlay, Write Original etc.
Nice news ) , though - sadly ( - v4.0.30319 version of .NET is needed for the ArsenalImageMounterControl.exe.
And yes, .NET is evil (in my perverted mind).
jaclaz
Major updates to Arsenal Image Mounter are now live on GitHub… a list of updates can be found here
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For example, an issue with blank disk signatures was brought to our attention recently and has been addressed with some creative work from Olof Lagerkvist.
A direct link to our sample MountTool executable is here
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I've made the project description more human friendly
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.
Finally, please help us spread the word… we would like open source projects to take advantage of our work and need commercial projects to license the code to fund more development!