Overview of the Mount Image Pro Graphic User Interface (GUI)

The Mount Image Pro GUI is designed to both manage the mounting and unmounting of images and to quickly display relevant information about the currently mounted images.

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Selecting the image42.gif button opens the Drive Selection window:

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image44.gif shows the image files available for mounting. Click the "Add Image" button to add an image to this list.

image46.gif shows the drives available on your computer. Note that this includes actual physical drives and images that have been mounted with Mount Image Pro.

The drive selection window displays the following information:

1        logical drive letter, e.g. "C:"

2        the drive label (if no label has been give it will display "{no label}"

3        the size of the drive, eg. 453.99 GB (note that the actual size of the drive is usually smaller than what the drive is labelled. Drive manufactures usually round up the drive capacity, so a 453.99 GB drive may be marketed as a 500GB).

4        the format of the drive, e.g.

A       NTFS

B        FAT

5        describes the way in which the drive is connected to the computer

A       SCSI - Small Computer System Interface, is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and storage devices

B        ATA -   an interface standard for the connection of storage devices such as hard disk and CD-ROM in computers. Includes Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA)

C       1394 - The IEEE 1394 interface (commonly referred to as FireWire) is a standard for high-speed communications used commonly for digital audio of multimedia drives

D       SSA - Serial Storage Architecture is a serial transport protocol used to attach drives to servers.

E        Fibre - Optic Fibre connection

F        USB - USB connection

G       RAID Types

6        describes the means by which the drive is being accessed

A       SCSI - SCSI Pass Through Interface

B        Win - Windows

C       File

D       TCPIP

E        MIX - Mixture of the above types

Options in the drive selection window include:

image1.gif   This button is used in for RAID recovery.

image2.gif    This button is used to add image files to the drive selection list, including DD, EnCase, FTK, SafeBack, AFF (Recover My Files Professional only).

image3.gif   This button refreshes the list of available drives.