RAM disk

[jerome12345]

I want to make a RAM disk. I want do do something like .this

I have 1 GB of RAM. How big should I make it, and is it possible to undo it? I use photoshop, ms office, play games (FPS like Halo BF1942...), surf internet. What should I put in the RAM disk?

EDIT: and im using XP

Any additional info or links about RAM disks would be great

thanks

 

[WackyDan]

bookmark... and Bump-want to try this too.

 

[Budman]

It looks like it doesnt work in Windows XP,I just tried it & it didnt work.

Drive letter is there but when I try & acess it I gives an error, "Incorrect function".

 

[TechnoPro]

I found a free RAM drive package from this site. Worked fine once correct settings were found and system rebooted... However, when I upped the size of the RAM disk to 128 MB, XP would not boot. Booting into safe mode and uninstalling it solved the problem. BTW, I have a gig of RAM so 128 shouldn't have been a issue.

 

[Budman]

I finally got it to work,but had to remove the damage that MS link did.

I followed the instructions on This page and it's working fine now,and it's free too.

 

[Monoman]

how many megs is did you set the ram drive to be?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Monoman
how many megs is did you set the ram drive to be?

I just set mine to 16 megs ( 16777216 ),just using it for internet caching.

you can set it up from 262144 to 1073741824.

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: Monoman
how many megs is did you set the ram drive to be?

I just set mine to 16 megs ( 16777216 ),just using it for internet caching.

you can set it up from 262144 to 1073741824.

Have you noticed anything as of yet? Performance? Stability? Bottom line- was it worth/is it worth it outside of the learning experience?

 

[kd7fhd]

BOOTABLE RAMDISK (not freeware but it works!)

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
I found a free RAM drive package from this site. Worked fine once correct settings were found and system rebooted... However, when I upped the size of the RAM disk to 128 MB, XP would not boot. Booting into safe mode and uninstalling it solved the problem. BTW, I have a gig of RAM so 128 shouldn't have been a issue.

Didn't boot at all? Huh...mine just would give a little exclamation mark in Device Manager at the AR Soft Driver. I have mine at...I think it's at 120MB, maybe only 100 - not at that PC right now. It is a bug they know about, and have known about for a long time now. I don't know if they're developing it anymore...or maybe the nature of the bug requires significant code rewriting.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
I found a free RAM drive package from this site. Worked fine once correct settings were found and system rebooted... However, when I upped the size of the RAM disk to 128 MB, XP would not boot. Booting into safe mode and uninstalling it solved the problem. BTW, I have a gig of RAM so 128 shouldn't have been a issue.

Didn't boot at all? Huh...mine just would give a little exclamation mark in Device Manager at the AR Soft Driver. I have mine at...I think it's at 120MB, maybe only 100 - not at that PC right now. It is a bug they know about, and have known about for a long time now. I don't know if they're developing it anymore...or maybe the nature of the bug requires significant code rewriting.

I had the same problem Jeff7 I followed the instruction on the link I put above & I got it working.

If you used the original Microsoft RAMDisk sample ( Q257405 ), you have to uninstall it first before installing this "Free" version. It is also recommended to delete the Driver Class of the MS Sample Driver from the registry by deleting next entries and their sub-keys :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Class\{78A1C341-4539-11d3-B88D-00C04FAD5171}]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{78A1C341-4539-11d3-B88D-00C04FAD5171}]

Also, search within the %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf for the original *.inf file that contains the text
"ClassGuid={78A1C341-4539-11d3-B88D-00C04FAD5171}" and delete this *.inf file.