I want to use it as only my operating system HDD. So I try and install Windows 7 x64 on it. Windows 7 and Intel SSD installation. From boot disk problem; Sata Solid State Disc IN XP. RAMisk or RAM-Disk (also known as RAM drive) is a virtual hard drive based on software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage which is similar to hard disks, except with advantage that RAMdisk is a lot faster and access time is greatly improved. As there is no mechanical moving parts involved, there won’t be question of wear and tear too. RAMdisk has one obvious downside, that it’s volatile and not solid state. Contents in RAMdisk is stored in computer RAM, which will be lost when the power of computer is switched off. With these benefits and limit, RAMdisk can be used to store frequently accessed yet less important temporary data to speed up the system performance, such as swap space for virtual memory, temporary files used for programs such as Internet Explorer, BT client, P2P eMule, compression utility, translation software and etc, frequently accessed data from a database or used to hold uncompressed programs for short periods. From privacy point of view, ramdisk is also a working drive for decrypted version of encrypted document, as all trace of the data will be wiped and deleted once power off. There are plenty of RAM-disk driver and software available, such as RamDisk9xME, RAMDiskXP, RAMDiskSE and RAMDiskVE from Cenatek (now becomes RAMDisk Extreme!, RAMDisk Pro and RAMDisk from ), RamDisk and RamDisk Plus from, RAMDisk Enterprise Lite, RAMDisk Enterprise Full and free version from, Ramdisk based on Microsoft Ramdisk below from QSoft (no longer available) and Ramdisk.sys driver for Windows 2000 from Microsoft published under. However, most of these RAMdisk drivers either is not free, or limit in its functionality especially on the size on RAM-disk. Some not even support Windows Vista, Windows 7 or later. The following freeware RRamdisk.sys (or more commonly known as Gavotte RAMdisk), originally written by Gavotte based on Microsoft’s Ramdisk.sys, and later being added a GUI interface by lyh728 is not only free to use, it also stable, doesn’t have size limitation, supports popular FAT16,FAT32, NTFS filesystems, and supports Windows 2000 operating system and above including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Gavotte RAMdisk supports 32-bit (x86) Windows system, where the system has memory recognition limitation of up to 4GB only, which makes available free memory to application normally around or below 3GB. The Gavotte RAMdisk can make use of any additional RAM installed that is beyond 4GB to fully utilize the memory. 64-bit (x64) Windows system is not officially supported due to driver issue, though some reported success. Anyway, 64-bit Windows can recognize and use all available physical RAM installed, making the RAMdisk workaround to use all RAM memory unnecessary. Download Gavotte Ramdisk with GUI: (Old Version for XP: ) To use RAMdisk, the most important requirement is that the system has a lot of memory, much a lot than the size of RAMdisk that you intends to create. It works on system with minimum 256 MB RAM, where you’re recommended not to set RAMdisk with size more than 64 MB. In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, enable Physical Address Extension (PAE), a memory management feature for allowing supported CPUs to enable NX bit (No-eXecute) and access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes. To enable PAE,, and run the following command: bcdedit /set pae ForceEnable Restart the computer to make the change effective. Verify the PAE status by running bdcedit, and the PAE should have the status of ForceEnable. After enabling PAE, execute the ram4g.reg registry registration file to tell Gavotte Ramdisk program to use RAM space beyond what Windows can use.The content of the REG file should look like this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services RRamdisk Parameters] 'UsePAE'=dword:00000001 Installation and setup of RAM drive is pretty simple. Unpack the zip archive to a folder, and run ramdisk.exe. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, you need to right click on it and select “Run as Administrator”, if not you will get a Failed error message. Click on Install Ramdisk to install RRamdisk.sys driver. Composite deck design handbook by sdirc canvas.
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