Supersimple DeamonTools alternative (1 Viewer)

zilexa

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Hi all,

I would like to point out there is another alternative wich has 3 benefits:
1. it is really extremely simple but has nice possibilities (mount as dvd drive, or harddisk).
2. you do not have a virtual drive in My Computer if you have not mounted anything. So only during mount you see the drive icon.

3. possible to mount to RAM memory instead to harddisk :) (extremely fast)

It's IMDisk Virtual Disk Driver
official site: Tools and utilities for Windows
more info what it can: ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and related projects - Boot Land

Since everything can be mounted with 1 single command, it would be nice if this would be supported by MP or perhaps even install this small thingie if someone does not have an alternative yet (so MP would have mount functionality out of the box).

The biggest benefit above Daemon is that in daemon you need to change some settings to get smooth mounting (popups etc), not needed in ImDisk.
 

edterbak

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March 4, 2008
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huh? Interesting :)

But, does it have requirements regarding amount of RAM available? Is this advicable for 1 / 2 GB systems?
 

zilexa

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I suppose it checks for enough available RAM before mounting to RAM. If you try to mount a 4.3 GB ISO to your memory (even if you have +4GB) you'll get a notification if you do not have enough free mem. Perhaps they even thought of a marge, keeping 100-200 MB free.

I succesfully mounted CDs to RAM. Never tried DVD. I have XP 32bit and 4GB so only 3.2 can be used by Windows (wich is ok since 780G also eats out 512MB of 4GB).
 

jsimmons

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Can we use this via MP, or not? I can mount an iso and play it via WMP, so how would I make MP do it?
 

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