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[Oleg_II]

Have a question:
I'd like to have a separate image file, say Appz.img, with some programs that need read/write access to disk during their operations. The image will be with compressed NTFS partition. If this image is mounted from CD/DVD will it have this ability? Which format on image file suits this purpose the best?

[TheHive]

Thats a good question.
I know you wont be able to write to the CD/DVD even if its an writable img I think.

[Oleg_II]

I read somewhere that wdmk images can be used from read-only medea?

[TheHive]

You must mean "vmdk" image. It would be nice if it did.

[Olof Lagerkvist]

Have a question:
I'd like to have a separate image file, say Appz.img, with some programs that need read/write access to disk during their operations. The image will be with compressed NTFS partition. If this image is mounted from CD/DVD will it have this ability?

Only if it is created as a Virtual Memory type disk (that is a kind of RAM-disk). In that case you can specify the image file as filename and ImDisk will create a RAM-disk and load your image file to the new disk. With this method the driver is working with a memory copy of the image and therefore it is writable.

[Oleg_II]

TheHive
Sorry, my fault

Olof Lagerkvist
Yes, I can uderstand that. But if I use Boot in RAM method I'd like not to load another image in memory as I already have one there The computer memory could be just not enough for both images. In this case mounting an image with read/write access from any media (USB, HDD, CD/DVD) could help. And as I understand mounting it from CD/DVD may have problems with read/write access for some (or maybe all) formats?

[Olof Lagerkvist]

Olof Lagerkvist
Yes, I can uderstand that. But if I use Boot in RAM method I'd like not to load another image in memory as I already have one there The computer memory could be just not enough for both images. In this case mounting an image with read/write access from any media (USB, HDD, CD/DVD) could help. And as I understand mounting it from CD/DVD may have problems with read/write access for some (or maybe all) formats?

Okay I see. Yes any kind of image will have problems on read-only media, the virtual disk will be read-only because it cannot modify the image file.

[was_jaclaz]

But you can use VDK to mount a VMDK image with UNDO/REDO, search for posts by sanbarrow on the 911CD board, and/or check his forum:
http://sanbarrow.com/phpBB2/
he is the expert on this.

jaclaz

[Oleg_II]

jaclaz
Unfortunately I can't search on the 911CD board - I registered but my account is not working and one can't use search there without login in

But it it is possible with VDK maybe it is possible with ImDisk?

[Olof Lagerkvist]

But it it is possible with VDK maybe it is possible with ImDisk?

Sorry, not without copying the entire image to memory. There is no redo/undo delta-storage system of that kind in ImDisk. But maybe sometime in the future as usual

[Oleg_II]

Well, looking for the future then It could be a usefull feature for using from CD/DVD.

Anyway, good work thanx!

[was_jaclaz]

@Oleg_II

You do not appear in the list of members. (at least not as Oleg_II)

Maybe your account got lost in the "GREAT EMAIL PURGE" of the board.

You can re-submit your account, or PM me your handle there (and the e-mail you were using, and the one you are using now) and I will forward the info to Ed_P, so that the account (if possible) will be re-activated.

jaclaz

[Oleg_II]

@jaclaz
Thanx

I've just re-registered again and was said to wait for an e-mail. Waiting


PS I registered for the first time maybe last year and was able to search once. Then it was stopped: I couldn't log in with my account and password. I gave up... (by that time I'd already found what I wanted