I Created a 2 Gig Ram disk. I Unmounted It and Uninstalled the program. After a reboot the 2 Gigs of ram still were not restored. How do I get the 2 Gigs of ram Back?
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If the fast startup feature of Windows (8/10) is enabled, that is, if you did not asked for a reboot but rather a shutdown and then a startup,
if something prevented the volume from being properly dismounted,
then the driver can be still active and keep this RAM (I assume you did not use the dynamic allocation feature).
The simplest is probably to ask Windows for a complete reboot (do no ask a shutdown). This should be enough.
If the issue persists, try to know whether the driver is still here and its state, by using the following command in a command prompt: sc query imdisk
You can also see, if imdisk.exe is still present in your Windows\System32 folder (which would be surprising), the list of the mounted volumes with the following command: imdisk -l
Last edit: v77 2019-01-01
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I Created a 2 Gig Ram disk. I Unmounted It and Uninstalled the program. After a reboot the 2 Gigs of ram still were not restored. How do I get the 2 Gigs of ram Back?
Uninstalling imdisk will unmount the ramdisk. I think you have another problem,
try installing and uninstalling again
If the fast startup feature of Windows (8/10) is enabled, that is, if you did not asked for a reboot but rather a shutdown and then a startup,
if something prevented the volume from being properly dismounted,
then the driver can be still active and keep this RAM (I assume you did not use the dynamic allocation feature).
The simplest is probably to ask Windows for a complete reboot (do no ask a shutdown). This should be enough.
If the issue persists, try to know whether the driver is still here and its state, by using the following command in a command prompt:
sc query imdisk
You can also see, if imdisk.exe is still present in your Windows\System32 folder (which would be surprising), the list of the mounted volumes with the following command:
imdisk -l
Last edit: v77 2019-01-01