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Add "ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver" to the usefull li

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:32 pm
by Icecube
Add "ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver" to the usefull link section.

ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver

ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. It can use one or more disk image files to create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives .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.

The install package also contains a user-mode helper service that enables the virtual disk driver to forward I/O requests to other computers on the network. This makes it possible to boot a machine with NTFS partitions with a *nix 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 you booted with the *nix Live-CD. This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. I am working on a Live CD image with devio and other useful things for this pre-loaded. Will publish that one for download soon.

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:28 pm
by as702
sounds interesting. may check it out.

thanks.

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:36 pm
by Constance
Looks like a nice utility :) (I just don't see the point with UBCDv5 :hmm: )

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:14 pm
by Victor Chew
Created a new forum and relocated message.