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From: anthony_arnold on 4 Jan 2006 05:05 I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I have installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk Device (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. I have looked at KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk driver and used these registry settings with no sucess. Can someone please tell me how to get the RAM Disk driver working with Windows XP and 2003 or tell me that it is not possible to get this driver working. I know that there are a number of free / commercial RAM Disks on the market, however I'd rath stick to a driver that is built into Windows.
From: S.Sengupta on 4 Jan 2006 05:23 " RAMDisk " for Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 http://www.ramdisk.tk/ http://www.tweakxp.com/article37232.aspx regards, S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] anthony_arnold(a)newsgroups.nospam wrote: > I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I have > installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk Device > (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. I have looked at > KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk driver and used these > registry settings with no sucess. > > Can someone please tell me how to get the RAM Disk driver working with > Windows XP and 2003 or tell me that it is not possible to get this driver > working. I know that there are a number of free / commercial RAM Disks on > the market, however I'd rath stick to a driver that is built into Windows. > >
From: Detlev Dreyer on 4 Jan 2006 08:35 anthony_arnold(a)newsgroups.nospam wrote: > I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I > have installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk > Device (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. Same here. Although I managed to setup that specific RAM Disk, it vanished at next reboot. > I have looked at KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk > driver and used these registry settings with no sucess. No problem here. Excerpt from that article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257405 | Windows XP Update: | | Installing the Ramdisk sample driver in a NTFS only machine might make | it unusable. To resolve this problem make the following change: | | While you call the IoCreateDevice function (RamdiskAddDevice function | in pnp.c), change the device type from FILE_DEVICE_VIRTUAL_DISK to | FILE_DEVICE_DISK and recompile the driver. After you install the | driver, restart the system in order to access the Ramdisk through | Explorer. When following this advice, all System Restore points disappear while Windows is trying to create the folder "Recycled" on that FAT drive. Therefore, the MSKB content manager had been advised to incorporate this addendum (excerpt): | Warning Installing Ramdisk in Windows XP may render the System Restore | feature useless. I changed that particular code in PNP.C in order to create a RAM Disk appearing as a *removable* media (w/o recycle bin): status = IoCreateDevice( DriverObject, sizeof(DEVICE_EXTENSION), &uniDeviceName, FILE_DEVICE_DISK, FILE_REMOVABLE_MEDIA|FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN, FALSE, &functionDeviceObject ); After recompiling that driver, it works perfectly. Also, you can assign the drive letter B: after this change which is unused in most cases. Although that RAM Disk size is limited to 32 MB by default, it's good enough to keep the Browser's temporary Internet Files (IE, Netscape, Firefox) as well as the Printer spooler directory for instance. -- d-d
From: Dixonian69 on 4 Jan 2006 16:07 WHY do you want a RAM disk??? "anthony_arnold(a)newsgroups.nospam" wrote: > I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I have > installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk Device > (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. I have looked at > KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk driver and used these > registry settings with no sucess. > > Can someone please tell me how to get the RAM Disk driver working with > Windows XP and 2003 or tell me that it is not possible to get this driver > working. I know that there are a number of free / commercial RAM Disks on > the market, however I'd rath stick to a driver that is built into Windows. > > >
From: R. McCarty on 4 Jan 2006 16:24
Actually, there are all manner of uses for one. Do you really believe that Mass Storage will remain "Magnetic" ? I saw an article on a new RAM based peripheral drive that has 8.0 Gigabytes of physical memory on a technology website yesterday. For a long time I used a RAM Drive from a company called Cenatek. It held my Temp folders and IE caches that where purged at every boot. I also used it as Temp space for multimedia processing. While a RAM Drive isn't something for everybody. Don't make light of somebody's desire to investigate and use one, there are a number of practical uses for one. "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:792E4C99-75F7-41B4-96F3-F04AA9848EB7(a)microsoft.com... > WHY do you want a RAM disk??? > > "anthony_arnold(a)newsgroups.nospam" wrote: > >> I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I >> have >> installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk Device >> (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. I have looked at >> KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk driver and used >> these >> registry settings with no sucess. >> >> Can someone please tell me how to get the RAM Disk driver working with >> Windows XP and 2003 or tell me that it is not possible to get this driver >> working. I know that there are a number of free / commercial RAM Disks >> on >> the market, however I'd rath stick to a driver that is built into >> Windows. >> >> >> |