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Creating a Ramdisk in Sys Memory under a Vista 32 OS

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by mwaldron

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I have a computer that is running the MS Vista 32 bit OS. I have 6 gig of ram and can only access 3 in the os. Is there a way to load a sys ramdisk into memory prior to booting into the Vista operating enviroment? This way I can at least us the additional 3 gig of ram sitting and going to waste.

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by older mycroft

I [i]think[/i] you mean [b]GIG[/b], and your 32-bit system WILL only show 3GB as available.

I'm not in any way 'up' on Vista, but I think you'll find that Vista is already using the other 3 gigabytes for the pagefile and other system registers.

So, at least it's not sitting there doing nothing.

by ic-it

The memory address space is limited to 4GB. Video cards and other devices also need memory space so to prevent conflicts you are limited to 4GB. The 64bit version will support much more (if the chipset supports it). Here is a link to a MSKB.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

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