{"id":129,"date":"2018-03-29T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbryan.icu\/?p=129"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:40:41","slug":"imdisk-toolkit-ram-drive-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisbryan.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"ImDisk Toolkit | RAM Drive for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I was playing around one night on the computer with some large video files and things were taking a bit of time. Being large and working off a mechanical HDD, I remembered back to the days when you could use the old DOS RAMDrive.sys to create a RAM drive using system memory.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This led me to search the interwebs for a tool that would allow this in windows 10. That&#8217;s when I found ImDisk ToolKit. ImDisk Tool kit, loads a driver that lets you create a RAM drive.<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I wont go into specifics because I think once you run the app to create a ram drive, it will be fairly self explanitory.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 columns\">\n<p class=\"description\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">This tool will let you mount image files of hard drive, cd-rom or floppy, and create one or several ramdisks with various parameters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">This all-in-one package includes the ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver (2.0.9), the DiscUtils library that extends the number of supported image file formats, and adds several GUIs and features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>64-bit:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imdisk-toolkit\/files\/20170706\/ImDiskTk-x64.exe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imdisk-toolkit\/files\/20170706\/ImDiskTk-x64.exe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>32-bit:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imdisk-toolkit\/files\/20170706\/ImDiskTk.exe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imdisk-toolkit\/files\/20170706\/ImDiskTk.exe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Requirements:<br>Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 (32 or 64-bit).<br>Some image file formats also require .NET Framework 4 (included in Windows 8 and later) to be mounted with the DiscUtils library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"row psp-section\">\n<div class=\"small-12 columns\">\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"features as-columns\">\n<li class=\"feature\">Ramdisk with optional dynamic memory management<\/li>\n<li class=\"feature\">Image file mounting, many formats supported<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imdisk-toolkit\/\">ImDisk Toolkit download | SourceForge.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was playing around one night on the computer with some large video files and things were taking a bit of time. Being large and working off a mechanical HDD, I remembered back to the days when you could use the old DOS RAMDrive.sys to create a RAM drive using system memory. 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