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| 179876 | 2003-10-02 13:05:00 | Is there such a thing as Ram Drive for win 98? | eef2 (1904) | ||
| 179877 | 2003-10-02 13:39:00 | There certainly is and its a freebie and it works well and it can be up to 2gig in size. I use it on my internet PC for swapfile, internet caching, temp files,logfiles etc etc. I turn off the PC and there is nothing to show where I have been or what I have been doing when I reboot. There is nothing more secure than a ramdrive and it sure makes a difference to performance in some programs. There are fairly straightforward instructions included in the download (you need to set up your autoexec file properly to load the ramdrive at the size you want and drive letter to use at boot). www.geocities.com |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 179878 | 2003-10-02 13:46:00 | I'm guessing you have to have loads of ram for this to work well? How much do you have John? Sounds about as good a reason as any to get more ram ;) This work for XP as well? | PoWa (203) | ||
| 179879 | 2003-10-02 14:20:00 | You have to wonder.. When I checked last in XP (A month or so back when I was last in Doze) my PC used 127MB of the available 512MB, and had a SWAP file that was 329MB large, with room to expand... of that 329MB, 160MB was in use upon boot! Why? Would setting the Virtual Memory to use the RAM Drive speed things up a lil? I know we're really pushing things here, but Im curious, as there's more than enough RAM to go around yet it insists on using the SWAP file? I've got a 256MB partition in Linux for SWAP, and its NEVER been used.. EVER! So why should doze have to use 160MB immediately of the available 329MB when all I've done is boot the darn thing? Am I just ranting and raving about nothing, or do others see what I mean? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179880 | 2003-10-03 00:27:00 | I have a gig and a half ram in total Powa 1gig of which I give over to the ramdrive. I initially did it because Win98SE hated having more than half a gig of ram (would get flakey/lock up/crash) and I had to find a way to use it. It wasn't till after I did a fair bit of research that I started using it for Swap and Temp type files for security purposes (not that I do anything illegal, I am one of those people who believes privacy is sacrosanct). Both 2000 and XP can use ramdrives but there do not appear to be any freebies. The following link is to a site with a commercial ramdrive program for XP/2000. www.cenatek.com |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 179881 | 2003-10-03 01:38:00 | I decided to have another look for a freebie Win NT/2000/XP ramdisk program and lo and behold....... www.arsoft-online.de |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 179882 | 2003-10-03 05:20:00 | Using a ram drive for the swap file would "probably" work. But a power failure might have messy (loss of data?) results. I used to use it on DOS machines to hold COMMAND.COm and a few batch files I used a lot. It made a big difference to speed. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 179883 | 2003-10-03 05:38:00 | With Win2k/XP the swap file gets stored in a file (pagefile.sys). So if you put that file onto the ram disk via the correct methods, then the file would get deleted at shutdown. What happens then, does windows re-create the swap file on the ram disk at bootup??? Also if you have your temp folder on the ram disk, does the folder get deleted itself, and recreated on reboot?? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 179884 | 2003-10-03 05:46:00 | I used AUTOEXEC.BAT to copy anything I needed to the ram disk, and make any directories needed. I don't know how automatic these "modern" things are. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 179885 | 2003-10-03 06:00:00 | Nope, anything in the RAM drive is lost, including files/folders. If you setup Windows correctly, you can make it empty the contents of the SWAP file upon shutdown (In this case, doing that would be a good idea I would think). Saving folders etc would be lost, because it is stored in RAM, when you shutdown your PC or reboot it, whatever was in RAM was lost.. including the RAM Drive's contents! Just remember, its not a normal HDD and isnt permanent storage! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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