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This little tool by Bo Brantén allows the mounting of a disk image to a drive letter. It can be found [http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ here] |
This little tool by Bo Brantén allows the mounting of a disk image to a drive letter. It works on WinNT/2000/XP/Vista/7. It can be found [http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ here] |
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== Usage == |
== Usage == |
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Mounting a image: |
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Filedisk requires windows style full path of the image to mount the image. If a relative path or unix style path are given, it will fail. |
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Note: Inside cygwin, Unix style path name can be converted to Windows absolute path name using the command '''cygpath''' |
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filedisk /mount 0 `cygpath -a -w Image/disk.img` m: |
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Unmounting a image: |
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Of course, you have to adapt the path and drive letters to your system. Note that the path to the image file must be complete, i.e. including drive letter, or it will complain about not finding file "D:"... |
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[[Category:Disk Utilities]] |
[[Category:Disk Image Utilities]] |
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Latest revision as of 06:25, 30 September 2011
This little tool by Bo Brantén allows the mounting of a disk image to a drive letter. It works on WinNT/2000/XP/Vista/7. It can be found here
Usage
Mounting a image: Filedisk requires windows style full path of the image to mount the image. If a relative path or unix style path are given, it will fail. Note: Inside cygwin, Unix style path name can be converted to Windows absolute path name using the command cygpath
filedisk /mount 0 "C:\Full\Path\To\Image\disk.img" m: filedisk /mount 0 `cygpath -a -w Image/disk.img` m:
Unmounting a image:
filedisk /umount m: