Depends how it is created. Is it a raw image of existing hard drive or is this created with some virtual machine so the image file is in specific format?

I bet any modern Linux distro can mount raw disk images.

Its created to be used with a virtual machine that uses .img file's as the hard drive, i have treid osfmount, that thing keept constantly crashing on windows 10 with 64 bit version.

If it's a raw hard drive image then it will contain a partition table at the start which confuses things, as most programs mount filesystems (i.e. partitions.) Even under Linux you have to tell it where the partition starts and mount that if you have an image of a whole disk, complete with partition table.

Saying it uses ".img files" doesn't really provide any information - there are hundreds of different file formats that use the .img extension. It's almost as bad as .dat.

well, i cant exactly point out what there had been used to make the hard drive image but it is proberly a raw image it has to mount

For Windows I use imdisk.

Also for new Windows, I use WinImage 9.0 (6.0 works in 9x Windows). it works very well for me.

vladstamate wrote:

Also for new Windows, I use WinImage 9.0 (6.0 works in 9x Windows). it works very well for me.

I've used WinImage since version 4.0, but iirc it didn't support harddrives at that time. but I used it for floppies a lot. It worked very well, love that program 😀

Winimage is a great program for this sort of stuff. It's a vital tool to have if you're dealing with anything involving retro PCs or PC emulation.

I use Winimage 9.0 to mount a 40Mb HDD image. It might not work with too large images though.