The easiest solution would probably be for you to turn off UAC, User Account Control. As an alternative you could set the ImDisk driver to auto-load at system startup. Turn off UAC: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/20/763275.aspx -- or -- Set the ImDisk driver to auto-load at Command Prompt: sc config imdisk start= auto or set the ImDisk driver to auto-load using GUI: Open Device Manager, View -> Show hidden devices. Under "Non-plug-and-play devices" right-click ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver and select properties. On the "Driver" tab, change start type to Automatic. Using either solution it would work after next reboot.