An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occured in System.ServiceProcess.dll Additional Information: Cannot start service ImDisk on computer '.'.
My first assumption after getting this error was that it was not running with correct permissions. I disabled UAC, change the SC configuration as instructed on download website, ran the process as an Administrator, etc. Nothing has resolved this issue at all. Here is the exact code (stripped down to just relevant ImDisk code) as it crashes on the very first line of my RAMDisk Constructor.
public RAMDisk()
{
// Initalize the ImDisk Driver
ImDiskAPI.LoadDriver();
IVssImplementation vssImpl = VssUtils.LoadImplementation();
vssBkupCmp = vssImpl.CreateVssBackupComponents();
}
public bool CreateRAMDisk()
{
// Create Empty RAM Disk
char driveLetter = ImDiskAPI.FindFreeDriveLetter();
ImDiskAPI.CreateDevice(50000, 0, 0, 0, 0, ImDiskFlags.DeviceTypeHD | ImDiskFlags.TypeVM, null, false, driveLetter.ToString(), ref deviceID, IntPtr.Zero);
// Format the Drive for NTFS
if (FormatDrive(driveLetter.ToString(), "NTFS", true, 4096, "", false))
{
string workingDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
if (CreateSymLink(driveLetter + @":\World", workingDir + @"\World"))
{
CopyDirectory(workingDir + @"\World", workingDir + @"\World_Save");
CopyDirectory(workingDir + @"\World", driveLetter + @":\World");
return true;
}
return false;
}
Edited by CrimsonGT, 13 August 2011 - 09:52 AM.
Just to mention, I found a website with some Read/Write speed tests for various RAMDisk libraries, which ImDisk was listed at. The speeds listed were considerably low (compared to others), but I just ran some tests using CrystalDisk, and yours has drastically improved on speeds since that website ran the tests.
