GUI + background service for the Arsenal Virtual RAM-disk driver

Allows: Ability to preload content to the RAM-disk from a local directory and synchronize the RAM-disk back on shutdown.

Features:

• GUI for configuring the parameters of the RAM-disk
• Windows service that will create the desired RAM-disk on boot and persist it on shutdown.

Compatible with/ment for:

• Arsenal Image Mounter software (already has Arsenal Virtual RAM-disk driver installed) Free Mode allows the creation and usage of RAM Disks:

https://arsenalrecon.com/products/arsenal-image-mounter

or

• Arsenal Virtual RAM-disk driver (stand alone installation for console usage) https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter/tree/master/DriverSetup

For virtual RAM-disk driver stand-alone setup follow this guide, otherwise ignore it:

The code requires Admin privileges and the Arsenal driver - which can be downloaded from its official repository. Thanks to user lazychris2000 here is a short instruction how to install the Arsenal driver:

Hassle-free (automatic) way

• download https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter/raw/master/DriverSetup/DriverSetup.7z
• extract the archive into some folder, for example c:\arsenal
• using an elevated Administrator command prompt, run the following commands:

c:
cd \arsenal\cli\x64
aim_ll.exe --install ..\..

• you should get something similar to the following

Detected Windows kernel version 10.0.19045.
Platform code: 'Win10'. Using port driver storport.sys.

Reading inf file...
Creating device object...
Installing driver for device...
Finished successfully.

Manual way

• download https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter/raw/master/DriverSetup/DriverFiles.zip
• extract the archive into some folder, for example c:\arsenal
• using Windows Explorer, open the appropriate subfolder - e.g. Win8 or Win8.1 or Win10 or perhaps Win7
• point your mouse over phdskmnt.inf file in the given subfolder and click the right mouse button to open the context menu
• from this context menu, choose the item Install and the Arsenal driver will be installed. You should see it in the Device Manager as Arsenal Image Mounter under the group Storage controllers

You will need Delphi 12.3 in order to compile the source code of RamDiskUI - or you can simply download the binary release. All pull requests are welcome.

Explanation of the registry values

The RAM-disk UI (not the Arsenal driver) creates several registry values which are then picked up by the RAM-disk service (not in real-time unfortunately - only on start or restart of the service). They are created under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ArsenalRamDisk] and are explained below:

• DiskSize is the size in bytes
• DriveLetter is obvious
• LoadContent is path to a folder whose contents will be pre-loaded in the RAM-disk at startup
• ExcludeFolders is StringList (lines delimited with CRLF) which specifies which folder names from the RAM-disk won't be saved on shutdown in the folder specified by LoadContent. I usually create numeric folders in my RAM-disk for my daily projects - but I don't want them to be persisted on disk because I can pull them with Git every morning.
• UseTempFolder whether to create TEMP folder on RAM-disk and point the OS to this temp folder
• SyncContent whether to save RAM-disk content on shutdown to the folder specified by LoadContent
• DeleteOld whether to delete those files and folders from LoadContent which are not present on the RAM-disk on shutdown (meaningful only when SyncContent is TRUE)

Here is an example from my PC:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\ArsenalRamDisk]
"DiskSize"="17179869184"
"DriveLetter"="Z"
"LoadContent"="D:\\Setup\\RAM_disk"
"ExcludeFolders"="chrome
opera
phpstorm
stoplight
_
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9"
"UseTempFolder"=dword:00000001
"SyncContent"=dword:00000001
"DeleteOld"=dword:00000001
"Type"=dword:00000010
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,53,00,4f,00,55,00,52,00,43,00,45,00,5c,00,\
  44,00,45,00,4c,00,46,00,49,00,5c,00,52,00,41,00,4d,00,64,00,69,00,73,00,6b,\
  00,5c,00,52,00,61,00,6d,00,53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,2e,00,\
  65,00,78,00,65,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Arsenal RAM-disk"
"WOW64"=dword:00000001
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"Description"="Arsenal RAM-disk"

LICENSE

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