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Windows XP - Create Ramdisk

 

Very often used under Windows 3.1 and 95/98, but since Windows NT, 2000, XP and Windows 7 it has almost been forgotten.
But we are still convinced of this RAM hard drive, which allows our computer to be made a little faster.

Note:
There is another article on the subject of Ramdisk, which describes the use of the Dataram Ramdisk under Windows 7.
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For example, all temporary files can be stored very easily on a ramdisk, which of course reduces the access time to these many times over.
Surfing the Internet is accelerated, for example, pleasantly.

Unfortunately, a ramdisk also has several minor "disadvantages".
All files contained in the ramdisk are deleted when the computer is shut down, also in the event of a system crash, and are thus irretrievably lost. The ramdisk is therefore unsuitable for important files.

But since we only use this ramdisk for our temporary files in the standard configuration, this shouldn't be too bad.

In this workshop we will of course also explain how all files on the ramdisk can be saved automatically when it is shut down.
We also offer other options for which a ramdisk can be used.
It must of course be emphasized that we cannot accept any responsibility for loss of data or any other damage.

Although Microsoft offers its own ramdisk driver, we opted for a third-party manufacturer, namely: AR Soft.

 

Important advantage of this freeware:
In contrast to the Microsoft driver, the AR ramdisk driver also allows the use of a ram drive with more than 31 MB.

Note: Support for the AR RAM disk has been discontinued by AR-Soft and is no longer being developed

Installation and standard use of a ramdisk


First the package has to be processed with a suitable program such as B. WinRAR or Win Ace can be extracted to any directory.

The installation routine is actually self-explanatory.

 

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After the installation, the ramdisk has to be configured.

In this standard example we take 64 MB as the size, based on 512 MB working memory.

 

 

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When setting the size, you should consider that the size of the ramdisk is withdrawn from the main memory, as it is created by this.
But more on that later.


Under the tab File System the name of the ramdisk and its ID can also be changed. The other settings should only be changed by very (!!!) experienced users.


Now we switch to our environment variables:

Start >> Control Panel >> System >> Advanced >> Environment Variables
and transfer our Temp and TMP files to our Ramdisk.

Click on variable >> Edit >> Enter new storage location + OK

 

 

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After we have done this for both variables, we only have to create a script with which we can copy our files on the ramdisk to another hard drive / partition.

For this we create a folder on the hard drive / partition (in our case D: Ramdisk).

Now we open any text editor or simply Notepad and create a new file with the following content:

xcopy / k / r / e / i / s / c / h / Y z: *. * d: ramdisk


We save this file as Ramsave.bat.

A double click would now open all files from our ramdisk automatically in copied our newly created folder.

Conversely, in order to automatically load these files into the ramdisk when the system is started, we still need a file Ramload.Beat create with the following content:

xcopy / k / r / e / i / s / c /hd:ramdisk*.* z:

These files now only have to be executed automatically when the system is started or shut down.