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User's guide O&O DiskImage Mount drive
You cannot mount a drive from an image located in the network.
Enable mounting disk:
If you create an image of one or more partitions/volumes, the image contains additional
information about the disk (or hard disk) along with the imaged data. This information will concern
the hard disk's structure as well as its corresponding system areas such as the master boot record,
possibly existing extended boot records, the LDM (logical disk management) database or the GUID
partition table. With the function Enable mounting disk, you can load this information or use it
for acquainting the hard disk to the operating system based on the disk's original information. We
recommend using this function when you want to restore deleted or destroyed data from a
forensic image.
Note:
Creating a virtual disk out of an entire hard disk can result in recognition problems for the virtual
disk when the following applies to the hard disk being imaged:
- defective or invalid partition tables
- partitioning process not supported by your operating system (e.g. GPT)
- dynamic hard disks containing volumes that are spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID5 when not all
the hard disks being used were imaged
- encrypted hard disk
Technical limitations
- Windows refresh problem: if you're working with a remote desktop connection, a new login will
be needed for displaying the mounted drives.
- Mounting images larger than 2TB is not supported by Windows XP (32-bit).
Note:
After restarting from Windows, the virtual drive is removed automatically from the drive list.
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