i need help creating a ram drive

logic0010

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i will have 4 gigs of ram in my system soon and getting ready for a ram drive does anyone know how to do this please help me out
 

logic0010

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nice but that program is limited to 2 gigs and for win 98 im dealing with 4 gigs and need xp to do it but thatis exactly what im gonna do only im gonna load windows to the ram drive.....think of the possibilites with that:D
 

mobilecommand

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just dont shut the pc off as a ram drive dumps its memory " since it is memory" and you lose everything..

:)

if you need a faster system get a new pc.. Ramdrive is not the answer
 

phisrow

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To the best of my knowledge, you'll need a dedicated hardware RAM drive if you want to run Windows out of it(or some pretty serious boot tweaking that I've only ever seen done with Linux). Software RAM drives can be useful for accelerating certain programs; but necessarily run on top of the OS.
 

logic0010

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Originally posted by: mobilecommand
just dont shut the pc off as a ram drive dumps its memory " since it is memory" and you lose everything..

:)

if you need a faster system get a new pc.. Ramdrive is not the answer


i have an amd 64 3200 oc it just isnt enough even with raided raptors raid 0 boot
a ram drive would bethe kick i need 3 gigs at rated 3200 speed thats fast
and 1 gig left even better now if only my motherboard would support 2 gig sticks
that would be even better
 

oboeguy

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So does anybody have a solution for setting up a RAM drive a modern way on XP?
 

oboeguy

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I'd seen that link but didn't notice how cheap it will be -- $60 w/o RAM. This could be very handy at work.
 

mikecel79

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This probably will not be possible. Almost every program that is going to make a RAM drive needs to have Windows loaded before it can be created. You've got the chicken and the egg problem.
 

Nothinman

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i will have 4 gigs of ram in my system soon and getting ready for a ram drive does anyone know how to do this please help me out

It's pointless, don't even bother.