Ram Disk Quest: Start WinME from memory!

[ferdinkum]

I have a T-Bird 1.4ghz and 1.5gigs of high perf memory. I want to make a 1 gig ram disk and every time the computer boots, place an image into the new ramdisk (minimal install of WinME and HalfLife: CounterStrike) and start windows from there.
Now ive got the whole 'make the ramdisk and place the image' part in, but how do i get windows to start without rebooting? If i reboot, wont I lose whatever is in the memory, thus WinME on the ramdisk?
Any answers, comments, or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

 

[audiophan]

I'd love to see those boot times if you loaded an OS on ram.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Hibernate, maybe?

It essentially dumps all RAM to disk. May not be a great idea with 1.5Gb of RAM.

Search google for a program called RamDisk98 (might be RamDiskME by now) or RamDiskNT (same folks make it ... jloije or something. You find one and you should find the other). I know that they restore the contects of a RAM disk upon boot-up, but I don't know about an entire OS.

-SUO