Guest pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Hi, I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). A long time ago I was using xmsdsk.exe, but as I read it doesn't work in XP. My "biggest success" is a 329 MB ramdisk - "AR Soft RAM Disk 1.20": http://www.majorgeeks.com/AR_Soft_RAM_Disk_d1356.html Do you know a freeware solution for XP to make bigger ramdisks? Thanks in advance and Best regards~~Piotrek~~pe3no.
Guest John Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 RE: Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP AR Soft RAM Disk 1.20 is suppose supply up to 2GB http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1491092650;fp;2;fpid;1277378924 "pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes > to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). > > A long time ago I was using xmsdsk.exe, but as I read it doesn't work in XP. > > My "biggest success" is a 329 MB ramdisk - "AR Soft RAM Disk 1.20": > http://www.majorgeeks.com/AR_Soft_RAM_Disk_d1356.html > > Do you know a freeware solution for XP to make bigger ramdisks? > > Thanks in advance and > Best regards~~Piotrek~~pe3no. >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:52:23 +0200, "pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl" <pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes > to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). > > A long time ago I was using xmsdsk.exe, but as I read it doesn't work in XP. > > My "biggest success" is a 329 MB ramdisk - "AR Soft RAM Disk 1.20": > http://www.majorgeeks.com/AR_Soft_RAM_Disk_d1356.html > > Do you know a freeware solution for XP to make bigger ramdisks? May I ask what you want a ramdisk (of any size) for? With *very* rare exceptions (in special circumstances), using a ramdisk in Windows is counterproductive. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP "pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl" <pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl> wrote: >I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes >to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). This is the Second Millennium... ramdisks have been useless since the previous one.
Guest C.Joseph Drayton Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP Uncle Grumpy wrote: > "pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl" <pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes >> to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). > > This is the Second Millennium... ramdisks have been useless since the > previous one. Actually Uncle Grumpy, there is a time when they are very effective for me. I write databases in Clarion, and when I compile I can cut my compile time by 80% if I put the entire Clarion application on a RAM disk and run the Clarion application from the RAM disk. For Clarion, compilation is VERY hard disk intensive so having all the ancillary files on a RAM disk is very nice. I run a laptop as my development machine, but would not recommend this approach for a person using a desktop unless it has a properly function UPS. Ciao . . . C.Joseph "A promise is nothing more than an attempt, to respond to an unreasonable request."
Guest pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl wrote: > I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes > to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). Hello again, I found what I needed - stable and freeware :) The site is in Russian: http://ramdisk.nm.ru/ramdiskent-rus.htm The driver also: http://ramdisk.nm.ru/RAMDisk_Enterprise_530105_Russian.zip There is an English version but you have to pay or use "Evaluation" version - where you receive pop-up messages. http://members.fortunecity.com/ramdisk/RAMDisk/ramdriv.htm http://members.fortunecity.com/ramdisk/Download/brewing.htm Best regards~~Piotrek~~pe3no.
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