The steps to mount VSCs from disk images using VSSADMIN and MKLINK are as follows:
- Start Windows Command Prompt (don't forget to run it as Administrator). In our case, the boot partition is mounted as G:\ drive, so we use the following command:
vssadmin list shadows /for=G:\
Figure 5.5. vssadmin list shadows /for=G:\ command output
As you can see in the preceding figure, our forensic image contains a shadow copy.
- The most important part of its properties for us is Shadow Copy Volume, in our case it's \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy7. Now we are ready to use MKLINK to mount the shadow copy we found. Use the ...