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From: Clay on 7 Mar 2006 11:27 How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup in Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up a ramdrive? I tried using my familiar command from W98 in CONFIG.NT in XP but the ramdrive didn't set up.
From: Wesley Vogel on 7 Mar 2006 12:20 Ramdrive.sys does not exist on XP. The way I understand it, ramdrive.sys didn't even work in Windows ME. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news:787F0A87-3443-4C2F-80D7-2B195D232485(a)microsoft.com, Clay <Clay(a)discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked: > How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup in > Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up a > ramdrive? > > I tried using my familiar command from W98 in CONFIG.NT in XP but the > ramdrive didn't set up.
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 7 Mar 2006 13:36 Clay wrote: > How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup > in Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up > a ramdrive? > > I tried using my familiar command from W98 in CONFIG.NT in XP but the > ramdrive didn't set up. There is third-party software available to do this, but let me ask you what your purpose is in doing this. Except for an unusual special situation, using a RAM drive in Wiondows is counterproductive. Most people who try to do this do so because of a misunderstanding of how memory management works. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
From: Stan Brown on 7 Mar 2006 15:35 Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:27:07 -0800 from Clay <Clay(a)discussions.microsoft.com>: > How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup in > Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up a ramdrive? The first question is not How but Why. Think long and hard about this. In DOS and early Windows versions, the rationale for a RAM drive was that there was RAM going unused. But Win XP (and other recent versions) make use of much more memory, if it's available. Therefore there's little or no unused memory. So if you set up a RAM drive, essentially you're making Windows handle memory in a less efficient manner, and you may even hurt the overall performance. The only possible justification I can see for a RAM drive nowadays is to have temporary files that get deleted automatically at shutdown. You can accomplish the same thing by dedicating a directory and then adding a del %MYSPECIALDIRECTORY% command to the shutdown script. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/
From: DP on 7 Mar 2006 16:34
OT and just out of curiousity: Where would one find the shutdown script? "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.1e77b89527c58fc898a1d2(a)news.individual.net... > Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:27:07 -0800 from Clay > <Clay(a)discussions.microsoft.com>: >> How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup in >> Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up a >> ramdrive? > > The first question is not How but Why. > > Think long and hard about this. In DOS and early Windows versions, > the rationale for a RAM drive was that there was RAM going unused. > But Win XP (and other recent versions) make use of much more memory, > if it's available. Therefore there's little or no unused memory. So > if you set up a RAM drive, essentially you're making Windows handle > memory in a less efficient manner, and you may even hurt the overall > performance. > > The only possible justification I can see for a RAM drive nowadays is > to have temporary files that get deleted automatically at shutdown. > You can accomplish the same thing by dedicating a directory and then > adding a > del %MYSPECIALDIRECTORY% > command to the shutdown script. > > -- > Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA > http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |