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QuestionRAM image of DVD? Pin
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There are lots of tools to create ISO image files on harddisk from a physical CD/DVD.

But are there drivers available (Windows 7 or 10) for reading a raw, physical CD/DVD, sector by sector (i.e. independent of any file system structure) into RAM, providing a driver interface so that software will see it as if it were a physical CD/ROM drive?

Alternately, but not as convenient for me: A driver making an ISO file appear as a physical drive rather than as an NTFS file. I don't need that permanent ISO image file, and waiting for it to be created will be a lot slower. (Actually, in my case, the RAM image could be built lazily: The application program could start immedately, and when the driver receives a request for a sector not yet read in, it could freeze the ongoing complete reading, serve the application by accessing the physical disk, and then return to the task of creating a RAM image of the complete disk.)

My PC, like most modern PCs today, has 16 Gbytes of RAM, so even a completely packed, two-layer DVD leaves between 6 and 7 GBytes RAM for other applications. If you need more, paging may throw out unused blocks to disk. Keeping a full DVD in RAM is perfectly realistic nowadays.

(In the good old days of DOS and 16+4 bit addressing, but RAM sizes were growing beyond 1 Mbyte, we did things like this with floppies: There was software to create a RAM disk in extended memory (who are old enough to remember LIM EMS? Smile | :) ). We created an 1.44 Mbyte RAM disk, copied in a entire floppy to it, in one go, track by track. If my memory is right, reading an entire track required two rotations, but after 154 rounds, for 77 tracks, the entire floppy was available thousands of times faster than reading the physical unit.

The problem today is not the ISO image file; I can write my own software to access every block in that image. Some other tools read from CD/DVD interfaces, rather than from the NTFS file system, or they provide other functions when reading from a physical drive. So I need a driver to fool them to believe that either an ISO file, or preferably, a RAM image of a disk, really is a physical drive, providing all those operations a physical drive offer, but at RAM speeds.

Which software is available to do give me that?
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