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ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.
Version 1.5.3 - (Compiled Nov 12 2011)
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/
ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
Current version 2.0.10 built 25 November 2018
ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2, 32 and 64 bit editions. It can create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory. The install package installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.exe and a Control Panel applet. After install is finished, type imdisk without parameters for syntax help or double click the ImDisk icon in the Control Panel. It also adds a menu item in Windows Explorer so that you can right-click on a file to mount it as a virtual disk drive. Users of mdconfig in FreeBSD will probably be familiar with the command line syntax of imdisk.exe. The driver, service and control program can be uninstalled using the Add/Remove programs applet in the Control Panel. No reboot is required for installing or uninstalling.

An additional driver, awealloc, in this install package supports memory allocation beyond 4 GB limit on 32 bit Windows through address window extension, AWE.

The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network. This makes it possible to boot a machine with NTFS partitions with a Live-CD and use the included devio tool to let ImDisk on another computer running Windows on the network mount the NTFS partition on the machine with a faulty NTFS partition. This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. There are also instructions about how to use devio under Windows on Claus Valca's blog.
Download screenshot - 43.5 KB
Download ImDisk install package, current stable version 2.0.10 built 25 November 2018 - 561.3 KB, works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Security Notice: Always download setup packages to a new empty directory. To run a setup package from a directory with other unrelated files could be dangerous!
Download ImDisk install package, previous stable version 2.0.6 - 363.5 KB


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