RAM disk

[Guest]

I would like to set up a RAM disk in Windows XP. I have 1.5 GB of RAM, and
for certain applications, I want to allocate 500 MB to a temporary RAM drive.
There used to be a nice utility (I think called ramdrive.sys) that did this
in DOS. Is there still something like this available for XP? If so, where?

Thanks

 

[Jerry]

A Google search on RAM drives will provide possible solutions.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I would like to set up a RAM disk in Windows XP. I have 1.5 GB of RAM, and
for certain applications, I want to allocate 500 MB to a temporary RAM drive.
There used to be a nice utility (I think called ramdrive.sys) that did this
in DOS. Is there still something like this available for XP? If so, where?

Thanks

Hi,

A couple of RAM disk products:

RAMDisk XP/2000
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm

RamDisk
http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the links. Too bad they cost $$. Note to Microsoft - please put
this back into the OS where it belongs. It used to be there - why was it
removed?

 

[Jerry]

If you had Googled, as I said to do, you would have found comments about
using RAMDRIVE from previous Windows versions.

 

[Robert Moir]

Thanks for the links. Too bad they cost $$. Note to Microsoft -
please put this back into the OS where it belongs. It used to be
there - why was it removed?

I'm guessing its because except for a few small exceptional cases, a ramdisk
in Windows XP will cause more problems than it solves.