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Pagefile on a RAMDRIVE! MWAHAHA!

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by xanderoth

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Ok- imagine a server Win2k with hw raid 5, 200 GB drive space near capacity with over 2gb of RAM. I want to create a RAM Disk to place my pagefile- just for fun I guess. Anyone wanna take a shot at this one? RAM disks for 2000 dont work very well, especially in pure NTFS environments, but I've got redundancy, backups and oodles of time and plenty of boredom to try.

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by jmny

I believe it what with Windows NT 3.1 that Microsoft included a sample RAM disk. It was intended for educational purposes only. If you checkin with www.microsoft.com/technet and lookup Article ID: Q257405 you will find info on building a simple Ramdisk along with some cautionary notes. Outside of doing it the Microsoft way there are many third party software companies that have Ramdisk software, one such company is at http://www.eecsys.com/ . Hope this has been of some assistance to you.

by xanderoth

I have viewed this article before- what Im looking for is how to actually force the pagefile to reside on this drive. It doesnt seem to be an available option, but I know I can probably force it somehow.

by joseph moore

RAMDisk by CENATEK claims, "Pagefile support: Checking this box will load RamDisk NT earlier in the boot cycle of the system. While this will allow RamDisk NT to support the Windows NT/2000 pagefile, it does not permit operations such as loading a disk image."
Personally, I have not used this product, so I can't verify their claims.
But, since you have plenty of time to kill, give it a shot!
Here is the URL for it:
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm?Page=Configure_NT
(please removeany spaces)

hope this helps.

by joseph moore

Ok. The URL is:
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm?Page=Configure_NT

Now, in the quirkiness that is techrepublic.com, URLs usually have a space or two added to them when the poster pastes them in the text box. So, when you copied the URLI pasted into your browser window, I bet it pasted this:
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm?Page=Configur%20e_NT

See the %20 at the end? Remove that if you see it when you paste the URL in your browser. That is a space.

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