RamDisk boot from USB device: Must RamDisk be C: ?

[Mark K Vallevand]

We've been using USB RamDisk boot as out backup and recovery mechanism. It
works well. But, we'd like to have the RamDisk show up as a different drive
letter. It this possible? I know that this is unlikely, but I thought I'd
ask.

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Regards.
Mark K Vallevand (e-mail address removed)

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[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Mark,

Back in SP1 days ramdisk driver was hardcoded to use C:. I was complaining
about this but I really doubt that they did something about it. I do not see
any mention in doc also there is no mention of similar undocumented registry
value in driver file itself.

Regards,
Slobodan

If you are desperate enough you could change c: to x: and CRC of driver
binary itself.

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

Bummer.
I'd really like to keep the drive letters consistant between normal boot and
USB RamDisk boot. It surprising how many engineers don't read instructions
and repair the C: drive (RamDisk) when booted from USB. Maybe I should make
the normal boot skip C: and have D: and E: be the disk partitions just like
when booted from USB.

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Mark K Vallevand (e-mail address removed)

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[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Mark,

I exactly know what and why you want to do that. My idea was to put ramdisk
to be Z: for the same reason.
Unfortunately only alternative that you have is the one that you mentioned
you should preassign volume letters for OS and second partition so that you
never use C: except for ramdisk purposes.
Use this as guideline just change volume letters that you want:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx

Regards,
Slobodan