Is there a way under windows to mount a in exe included disk image at runtime

[ Original question postetd at stackoverflow ] 
maybe you have an idea how that will work under Windows >= 7 or in any case >= 10

I want to generate an executable, where an disk image is added (linked at compile time) to the exe.

Under linux, it's possible to mount an image with a certain offset

• mount

  mount -o loop,offset=$((1024 * 512 * 8)) image.raw /mnt

• losetup

  losetup /dev/loop0 image.raw -o $((1024 * 512 * 8)) mount /dev/loop0 /mnt

• I wrote a simple shell script, that demonstrates that with the efi boot partition added afterwards to a zero image with 8*512k blocks.

#!/usr/bin/bash
 
BLOCKSIZE=`echo '512  * 1024' | bc`
SEEK=8
OFFSET=$(echo "$BLOCKSIZE * $SEEK" | bc)
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.img bs=512k count=8
cp zero.img offset_disk.img
dd if=/dev/nvme0n1p15 of=offset_disk.img bs=$BLOCKSIZE seek=$SEEK oflag=append
 
mkdir -p /mnt/efi
mount -o loop,offset=$OFFSET offset_disk.img /mnt/efi
du -h -s *.img ; df -h  | grep efi
 
sleep 1 ; umount /mnt/efi ; rm -f zero.img offset_disk.img
exit 0

Output of shell script -x (debug) 

The creation of the image file added to an executable would not be the problem, because I understand:

How to link a dll or dll embedded resource or image file to an executable with C++ linker

• stackoverflow.com: how to link a dll to an exe file at runtime
• learn.microsoft.com: linking an executable to a dll

and also C# .Net crossgen2 to produce a big static exe, that needs no Framework anymore

• learn.microsoft.com: cross platform targeting
• devblogs.microsoft.com: conversation about crossgen2
• flerka.github.io: ahead of time compilation
• stackoverflow.com: how to install crossgen to optimize net core library in ci cd

The only problem I have, is how to mount disk / iso9660 image files with a certain offset.

Maybe isolated storages in .Net could be worth a try.