filedisk-17-org.zip

This is a virtual disk driver for Windows that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks. Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Bo Brant�n. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA The GNU General Public License is also available from: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Please send comments, corrections and contributions to bosse@acc.umu.se The most recent version of this program is available from: http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Revision history: 17. 2009-10-21 Small bug fix for CD-images on Windows Vista and Windows 7. 16. 2009-10-15 Allow to mount images without administrative privileges by Konstantin Vlasov. 15. 2009-04-12 Support for DVD images with the UDF file system. Set image file to sparse as default. Small bug fix. Can be compiled with the WDK. 14. 2006-01-05 Updated impersonation so that use of image files stored on network drives work on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. 13. 2004-06-09 Small fix in file size handling. 12. 2004-05-27 Possible fix for memory leak. 11. 2002-11-30 Added ioctl to query information about mounted disk image files by request from developer of GUI. 10. 2002-11-24 Added a check so that FileDisk doesn't use compressed or encrypted images. For an explanation why this doesn't work see comment in the source code. 9. 2002-08-26 Corrected the share access for read-only FileDisk images. 8. 2002-08-11 Updated the control application to support UNC paths. Changed the handling of CD-ROM device objects to avoid some problems on Windows XP. Corrected the handling of file sizes so that FileDisk images can be sparse files. 7. 2002-02-28 Added support for CD-images. 6. 2002-01-21 Added support for impersonation so that FileDisk images can be stored on network drives. 5. 2002-01-18 Updated for Windows XP by Robert A. Rose. 4. 2001-07-08 Formating to FAT on Windows 2000 now works. 3. 2001-05-14 Corrected the error messages from the usermode control application. 2. 2000-03-15 Added handling of IOCTL_DISK_CHECK_VERIFY to make the driver work on Windows 2000 (tested on beta 3, build 2031). Formating to FAT still doesn't work but formating to NTFS does. 1. 1999-06-09 Initial release.