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> Which image format is better to use?, For mounting a file as read/write from read only media.
Oleg_II
post Jul 7 2007, 06:35 PM
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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?
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post Jul 8 2007, 06:29 AM
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Thats a good question.
I know you wont be able to write to the CD/DVD even if its an writable img I think.
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post Jul 8 2007, 06:51 AM
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I read somewhere that wdmk images can be used from read-only medea?
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post Jul 8 2007, 10:05 AM
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You must mean "vmdk" image. It would be nice if it did.
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post Jul 8 2007, 12:09 PM
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QUOTE (Oleg_II @ Jul 7 2007, 08:35 PM) *
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.
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post Jul 8 2007, 12:36 PM
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Sorry, my fault (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif)

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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 (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) 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?
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post Jul 8 2007, 12:54 PM
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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 (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) 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.
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post Jul 8 2007, 01:28 PM
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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.

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post Jul 8 2007, 01:41 PM
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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 (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

But it it is possible with VDK maybe it is possible with ImDisk? (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Jul 8 2007, 01:45 PM
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QUOTE (Oleg_II @ Jul 8 2007, 03:41 PM) *
But it it is possible with VDK maybe it is possible with ImDisk? (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

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 (IMG:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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