Removing Ram Drive

The problem is that the Microsoft RAM drive can only load in config.sys (bumping your CD-ROM a letter) and has a 32 MB limit. To hell with that! My buddy Zap over at Brawley OnLine
(He's the guy who supplied me with the Celerons that does 605Mhz) found a tiny RAM drive program that loads in the autoexec.bat and you can assign it whatever drive letter you want (in conjunction with the lastdrive= line in config.sys) and whatever amount of physical RAM you want to use, up to 2 GB! It uses RAM from top-down, and is fully compliant with Win95/98 (so Device Manager doesn't freak out and say it is in MS-DOS compatibility mode).

The main problem with using a RAM drive for games is that the RAM you assign for the RAM drive is no longer available to system RAM. In other words, if you have 256 megs of RAM and you assign 100 megs for a RAM drive, your system RAM is now down to 156 Megs. This is why you need a lot of RAM to be able to setup a RAM drive. Also the average new game on the market today is like 400 megs. what to do with, in which case you can buy 1 gig of RAM and setup a 400 meg RAM drive)

Games aren't the only programs you can use on a RAM drive. Any program will load much faster from RAM than from a hard drive. You just have to make sure the program isn't larger than your RAM drive. You can download the RAM Drive program from The Tech Zone download page or click here to download now. It's only 75K. Complete instructions are in the read me file

To add:
Remember that WinME and lower only support 512Meg RAM without "tricks", and you will need to use Cacheman to lower the Disk Cache to 4 Meg, if you go really big on RAMDrive.
To remove RAMDRIVE from PC, run SYSEDIT.EXE
Regards, Chris

Read the Microsoft Knowledge base article: 257405 for Win2K or go to this link: http://dslnuts.com

The links below search the archives you'll find the detailed instructions for installing RAM drive for Win 9x and Win2K

Do take care when if you want to change your Temp folder to RAM drive(most of the RAM drive show you how to, which it really do speed up alot of things you do).
When you're using programs like photo shop or similar, check the program temp drive location settings first. This is because when you view pics, the pics are actually loaded into the temp folder (your RAM drive),you'll be surprised by how fast the temp folder will be filled up !! But by loading the pics into the RAM drive, the process are much faster than from hard drive.

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