Mount EnCase/Expert Witness (.E01 files), VMWare Disk (.vmdk files), FTK, SMART or dd files locally or over the network.
 Convert EnCase/Expert Witness and .vmdk files to "flat" image files
Mount password protected EnCase/Expert Witness .E01 files without the password
Mount file systems from within dd images or Macintosh .dmg images
Mount file systems from within FTK images
 No need to re-acquire evidence, no need for write-blockers.

Smart Mount is a utility that allows you to mount filesystems contained in logical and physical disk image files. It automatically detects the partitions and filesystems in your images. Simply point and click the volume(s) you wish to mount. It's that easy!

Filesystems mounted in Smart Mount behave just like regular volumes. They are assigned a drive letter in Windows and a filesystem mountpoint in Linux. You can browse these volumes in your favorite GUI environment using any tools you like.
Tools that index, search, recover, carve, repair or examine images and filesystems work as you would expect.

Multiple layers of write-protection ensure that the data in your image files will not be modified. Smart Mount Pro provides a protected read/write mount mode, writes are redirected to a separate overlay file. Changes made in past Smart Mount sessions can be included by reusing an overlay file. Overlay files can also help you detect and isolate changes made while the image is booted in a virtual machine.

Smart Mount automatically recognizes and supports many common disk image formats. Even if you have an EnCase/Expert Witness image made up of 300 segment files, Smart Mount makes it easy. What's more, Smart Mount allows other applications to access the image data even if those applications don't support split images or special formats. There is no need to waste time and storage space re-imaging your data!  Just fire up Smart Mount and within seconds your image data is unlocked and ready to use with any application that supports dd-style images (in Linux) or can operate on a drive letter (in Windows).

What disk image formats are supported?

• raw (dd-style) images
• SMART for Linux images
• Expert Witness/EnCase Format (including ".E01" style files)
• VMWare Virtual Disk files (including sparse and segmented VM disks)
• Smart Acquisition Workshop format
• ...and more coming soon!
  
  

What partitioning schemes are supported?
Some other image-mounting utilities require you to specify partition offsets manually. Put away that calculator and start using Smart Mount!

• MBR (Normal PC Partitions)
• EFI / GPT (MBR Replacement; used by Apple and others)
• APM (Legacy Apple Partitions)
• ...and more coming soon!
  
  

What filesystem types are supported?
Almost any filesystem supported by the underlying OS can be mounted using Smart Mount.

• Microsoft Windows includes support for NTFS, FAT, ISO (cdrom), and UDF (dvd).
  Third party drivers for other common filesystems (such as HFS+ and Ext3) are available for free online.
  
  
• Linux supports over 40 different filesystems. Most distributions include support for the majority of these filesystems "out of the box", with no extra installation or configuration required.