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Alternative to WinImage for handling harddrive image files on Windows?

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First post, by vetz

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Do anyone have a good alternative (with GUI) to WinImage for handling files inside a harddrive .img file that runs on Windows? I find WinImage quite poor at handling this use case as it lacks both features, have bugs and is annoying to use to insert and remove files inside the image.

Netdrive, ZuluSCSI, PicoMem and others make use of harddrive .img files so easy handling is more important at the moment.

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Reply 1 of 7, by jakethompson1

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7-Zip can read a lot of individual file system images including ISO9660, FAT, UDF, etc.
I am not sure how well it deals with being given an entire hard drive image, MBR, partitions, and all. Ideally it would let you peek at each partition as a sub-"archive" without extracting it?

Reply 3 of 7, by Jo22

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lolo799 wrote on 2025-06-29, 22:13:

There's this:
https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

No write support for VHD (Virtual PC).. 🙁
But has good Nero support. 😀

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Reply 4 of 7, by Thermalwrong

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I've been using ImDisk which can mount and modify lots of image file types: https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/
It works pretty well for the hard disk images I've been working with in .img & .vhd format. But apparently it doesn't work well with later versions of Win10, works okay with Windows 10 22H2 for my uses.

Seeing that page though, it's been superceded by an actively maintained version called AIM toolkit but I'm not sure if it's paid software or what, it's the same person making the software and it's open source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aim-toolkit/
https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter

Reply 5 of 7, by darry

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Jo22 wrote on 2025-06-29, 22:25:
lolo799 wrote on 2025-06-29, 22:13:

There's this:
https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

No write support for VHD (Virtual PC).. 🙁
But has good Nero support. 😀

Windows 10 (and likely 11) disk management console can create, mount and read/write to VHD images . I had always assumed this was the same VHD format as the Connectix (later Microsoft) Virtual PC (VHD) format.

Reply 6 of 7, by leileilol

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Windows 10 has limitations though, like you can't mount compressed VHDs

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Reply 7 of 7, by vetz

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lolo799 wrote on 2025-06-29, 22:13:

There's this:
https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

Thank you for the suggestion. I tested it out.

It requires a bit more of a setup to mount the drive before you can copy/delete files from it. The best would have been if you could open an .img by doubleclicking and it would auto-mount, but that does not appear to be a functionality that comes with it. Once it is mounted it works better than WinImage, so almost there 😁

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