This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. 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.
The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network.
No reboot is required for installing or uninstalling.Īn additional driver, awealloc, in this install package supports memory allocation beyond 4 GB limit on 32 bit Windows through address window extension, AWE.
The driver, service and control program can be uninstalled using the Add/Remove programs applet in the Control Panel. Users of mdconfig in FreeBSD will probably be familiar with the command line syntax of imdisk.exe. 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. After install is finished, type imdisk without parameters for syntax help or double click the ImDisk icon in the Control Panel. The install package installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.exe and a Control Panel applet. It can create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.
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.
Other useful tools and interesting source code using undocumented native API:s and an Ext2 filesystem for NT project by Adrey Shedel.Ĭlick here for update history for this page (last update 10 September 2021)Īll file dates are in ISO date format, YYYY-MM-DD. Many useful open source Windows NT driver projects by Bo Brantén. Links to other projects Many useful ports of GNU utilities to Win32 by Karl M Syring are available at UnxUtils Sourceforge site. Send me an e-mail: or MSN to or call me at +46 70 345 89 52 or Skype: live:ol.
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Source code for the utilities and many other small test applications are available here as a 7-zip archive, Click to recommend this site: Tools and utilities for Windows Some of my programs listed here are written many years ago and some are new, but most of them are now recompiled with MSVC++ compiler.