Ramdrive device driver for Win9x?

Pengo · 14th July 2001, 6:08 AM

G'day

Just wondering if there is a ramdrive device driver I can install before Win98 loads, so that it can setup a drive using 384mb of my ram. And then so when windows is loaded, I can set it up to create the swapfile on the drive. And in a round about way get windows to totally use ram and not touch my hdd ever for "virtual memory". Heeh. Granted I understand the reason behind the use of virtual memory and why window uses it (to swap out). Nevertheless it would be interesting if I could get this to work, and thus see how my computer performs since swapfile access is actually RAM axs (since its created in RAM). Has someone already tried this? Is it like just disabling virtual ram? I've used a program called Cacheman to have windows use up all avaliable ram before it uses the swap file, so would there really be no improvement?

I understand that as soon as i reboot/power off my computer, the swapfile is deleted and has to be recreated when computer boots up again. Also has anyone created a ramdrive and copied the win98/winme setup files onto it and installed winme from RAM? How fast did the install run? heeh would be good to see how fast the install goes then. Hmmm I think another experiement in computing is in order

Nevertheless if there is a ramdrive device driver I can load at boot time so I can create the swapfile on the ramdrive, please let me know. As I'd love to see how my system performs in this experiment :P

thanks

14th July 2001, 6:08 AM	#1
Pengo (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Melbourne. Posts: 70	Ramdrive device driver for Win9x? G'day Just wondering if there is a ramdrive device driver I can install before Win98 loads, so that it can setup a drive using 384mb of my ram. And then so when windows is loaded, I can set it up to create the swapfile on the drive. And in a round about way get windows to totally use ram and not touch my hdd ever for "virtual memory". Heeh. Granted I understand the reason behind the use of virtual memory and why window uses it (to swap out). Nevertheless it would be interesting if I could get this to work, and thus see how my computer performs since swapfile access is actually RAM axs (since its created in RAM). Has someone already tried this? Is it like just disabling virtual ram? I've used a program called Cacheman to have windows use up all avaliable ram before it uses the swap file, so would there really be no improvement? I understand that as soon as i reboot/power off my computer, the swapfile is deleted and has to be recreated when computer boots up again. Also has anyone created a ramdrive and copied the win98/winme setup files onto it and installed winme from RAM? How fast did the install run? heeh would be good to see how fast the install goes then. Hmmm I think another experiement in computing is in order Nevertheless if there is a ramdrive device driver I can load at boot time so I can create the swapfile on the ramdrive, please let me know. As I'd love to see how my system performs in this experiment :P thanks