ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM 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.
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• Positive comment • more than a year ago • 0 replies
ImDisk is the best ramdisk I could find for Windows OS.
Lightweight, open source and very functional, ImDisk allow you to create virtual drives (ramdisks) directly on your PC RAM (be careful, all ramdisks data is lost when you shutdown or restart your system). ImDisk ramdisks are very flexible, able to be extended, saved or deleted after creation.
ImDisk is also able to mount images files like .iso files but this functionality is not the main software job and others programs do it better than ImDisk.
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I personally launch a .bat file on the startup of Windows to build a 4Gb B:\ drive (I have 16Gb of RAM). It allow me to store system temp files (in B:\Cache\Temp), browsers cache (in B:\Cache) and working files contents (directly in B:). There are many reason to locate cache and temp file on a ramdisk, but if you have a SSD drive and want to grow it lifespan, you should read this page.
— Auto-launch a 4Gb B:\ drive at your PC startup :
Create a "ImDisk_Startup.txt" file
Copy/Past this code : @echo off
set drive=B set size=4G
if exist %drive%:\ ( echo %drive%: drive can't be created because it already exist. pause ) else ( timeout 2 > NUL C:\WINDOWS\system32\imdisk.exe -a -s %size% -m %drive%: -o rem -p "/fs:ntfs /v:Ramdisk /q /y" mkdir %drive%:#\Temp mkdir %drive%:#\Cache )
change size=4G with size=1G if you want a 1Gb drive
change size=4G with size=512M if you want a 512Mb drive
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change drive=B with drive=A if you want a A drive letter
change drive=B with drive=Z if you want a Z drive letter
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save the file
rename the file as a .bat file (ImDisk_Startup.bat)
move the file to "C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" (Change YOUR_NAME with your username)
if it doesn't work because of security system or it always display format message box when you startup, change the .bat file location and launch it with a schedule task
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• Positive comment • 6 months ago • 0 replies
Free & Dynamically allocate ram.
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• Negative comment • more than a year ago • 0 replies
ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver was added on AlternativeTo by on Mar 29, 2010 and this page was last updated on May 24, 2019. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver is sometimes referred to as imDisk.
ImDisk is the best ramdisk I could find for Windows OS.
Lightweight, open source and very functional, ImDisk allow you to create virtual drives (ramdisks) directly on your PC RAM (be careful, all ramdisks data is lost when you shutdown or restart your system).
ImDisk ramdisks are very flexible, able to be extended, saved or deleted after creation.
ImDisk is also able to mount images files like .iso files but this functionality is not the main software job and others programs do it better than ImDisk.
———— My configuration ————
I personally launch a .bat file on the startup of Windows to build a 4Gb B:\ drive (I have 16Gb of RAM).
It allow me to store system temp files (in B:\Cache\Temp), browsers cache (in B:\Cache) and working files contents (directly in B:).
There are many reason to locate cache and temp file on a ramdisk, but if you have a SSD drive and want to grow it lifespan, you should read this page.
How to :
— Change location of TEMP Windows files folder
— Change Firefox Cache location
— Auto-launch a 4Gb B:\ drive at your PC startup :
Create a "ImDisk_Startup.txt" file
Copy/Past this code :
@echo off
set drive=B
set size=4G
if exist %drive%:\ (
echo %drive%: drive can't be created because it already exist.
pause
) else (
timeout 2 > NUL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\imdisk.exe -a -s %size% -m %drive%: -o rem -p "/fs:ntfs /v:Ramdisk /q /y"
mkdir %drive%:#\Temp
mkdir %drive%:#\Cache
)
• Change not approved yet • Edited 25 days ago
Free & Dynamically allocate ram.
Stay away from these and try this one:
WinCDEmu