4GB and booting from a CD...

[Hurricane Andrew]

Well, I found a drawback to 4GB of RAM in a system. Seems my trusty old Ghost 2003 boot CD (created with Bart's assistance) won't work due to the 4GB of RAM. Oh yeah, I can get it to work very simply by removing a couple sticks of RAM, but I hate to remove and replace 2 sticks of RAM every month when I update my images (sometimes more often when I'm testing various software).

Is there any way to modify the boot image so that the RAM disk created will use less RAM and let me boot without removing DIMM's?

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Problem is with your imaging software interfacing properly with 4GB of RAM. Newer software may fix this limitation. I use BootIt NG. BING works fine with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB. Speed is 1200 to 1600MB/min, depending on speed of CPU and HDD. You can try the full version of BING for 30 days at Terabyteunlimited.com.

There is no need to install this software. It runs outside of windows. simply load the program on a floppy or boot CD and restart the PC with the software in your floppy or optical drive.