

To unmount the virtual drive issue the following command, (Path) - Path to the virtual disk drive. Vmware-mount - Starts the mount application. C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility\ or "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit\bin")



This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. This makes it possible to boot a machine with NTFS partitions with a *nix Live-CD and use the included devio tool to let ImDisk on another computer running Windows on the network mount the NTFS partition on the machine you booted with the *nix Live-CD. The install package also contains a user-mode helper service that enables the virtual disk driver to forward I/O requests to other computers on the network. No reboot is required for installing or uninstalling. The driver, service and control program can be uninstalled using the Add/Remove programs applet in the Control Panel. Users of mdconfig in FreeBSD will probably be familiar with the command line syntax of imdisk.exe. It also adds a menu item in Windows Explorer so that you can right-click on a file to mount it as a virtual disk drive. After install is finished, type imdisk without parameters for syntax help or double click the ImDisk icon in the Control Panel. The install package installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.exe and a Control Panel applet. It can use one or more disk image files to create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives. ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008.
