RAM DISK?

[WarPiper]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to create a ram disk for Windows 2000 pro that runs and acts the same as on the Amiga?
 :crazy:

[mikeymike]

I have a ramdisk set up on my PC, running win2k.

www.cenatek.com sell the piece of software I use.

You can also configure it to be recoverable, I did have it configured like that and it works fine.  Just that saving a 256MB image to disk on shutdown takes a while :-)

Btw, the picture on that company's home page is another product they sell, that's not what I'm using.

[amigamad]

www.cenatek.com sell the piece of software I use.

what do you mean sell we want free software. :-D

[mikeymike]

This piece of software cost a whopping 35 dollars when I bought it.  I think the price has gone up a little since then, but if that is going to break any computer user's bank balance, they need to seriously check their priorities :-)

[Im>bE]

I just wanted to say how sick I get from pc questions in this forum.

why are there pc forums I say...

'you guys.. uhm.. I have a pc now.. and I wondered about .. uhm.. how can I make it... ehhh.. make it work like an amiga?...'

BLARGH!...

[Desolator]

OR... create a folder on your harddrive named "RamDisk".

Create a shortcut to the folder and place it on your desktop, rename it to "Ram Disk" and change the icon to something that looks like the Ram Chip.

Open up a texteditor and create a batch file. Like this:
c:\ramdisk\ (or wherever you place the folder)
delete *.*

Put that batch file into the Startup/autostart folder in the startmenu.

voila. Sort-of Ram Disk. Everytime you restart windows, the directory will be emptied. Ofcourse this solution has its limits but it's a good way of temporary use files on the computer.

Easy and free solution.

[seer]

I just wanted to say how sick I get from pc questions in this forum.

Yeah, like a PC forum is going to offer much help here...

[imagine]
Warpiper:
I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to create a ram disk for Windows 2000 pro that runs and acts the same as on the Amiga?


Answer1

What's an Amoga ?

Answer2
Why you wanna have something stupid as an amiga thingie ?

 ;-)

And here I was few days ago saying in the "time to say goodbey" thread how helpful/tolerantl people were when concerning PC related questions  :-D

[seer]

This piece of software cost a whopping 35 dollars when I bought it. I think the price has gone up a little since then, but if that is going to break any computer user's bank balance, they need to seriously check their priorities

Well, $35 to use a feature the OS should have integrated in the first place..  :-o , IMHO...

Still, I think a somebody at works uses this as well (Or something similar), he thinks it was worth his money as well..

[mikeymike]

Well, $35 to use a feature the OS should have integrated in the first place

But it's not.  "Oh, I don't want it then!".  It's not a standard OS feature either.

The software has been stable.  People new to it might experience some discomfort initially configuring it, because of expanded/excluded memory is a bit of a PITA, but after that it's cool.

[amigamad]

Is a ram disk much use on a pc and i know there are free ram disks for the pc .

this site has info and a free ram disk http://www.surasoft.com/tut/ramdisk.htm

[WarPiper]

@ Im>bE

I just wanted to say how sick I get from pc questions in this forum.

do you really think that 98% of the pc users even know what an amiga is?  NO, and I can say that I have never known one that even knows what a ram disk is.

Just to mention, though this is an Amiga forum, it is not an Amiga ONLY forum, or I have not taken it as such for the past couple of years, I was an Amiga user, I had a total of five Amiga's at one time, but due to lack of software development, hardware development i.e. new systems (it should not take over 10 years just to make a compatible), stable parent company, and the fact the pc has out paced the Amiga in everything yea, I did sell off my Amigas, but that does not mean that I don’t have fond memories of the system.  The fact is that if the Amiga market was to become a feasible platform for me to support once more, I would, but until then I will continue to reminisce and converse with my fellow Amiga/PC users here in this Amiga forum

[color=FF0000]SO IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, LEAVE![/color][/b]
THERE ARE ALOT OF PEOPLE HERE WHO OWN AND USE PC FOR EVERYTHING, BUT STILL LOVE THE AMIGA, AND ALSO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THEIR PC MORE AMIGA-ISH!

BY THE WAY THE WORD AMIGA HAS BEEN MENTIONED HERE 14 TIMES, I HOPE I SPOKE ENOUGH ABOUT THE AMIGA FOR YOU NOW.

[WarPiper]

@ amigamad

thanks, thats a very informative site

[jeffimix]

Shyte mon if you use Windows 98, 98SE, 95, 3.1 (or lesser) you can do it easy! Windows will complain but works dandy. You go into DOS and in the err umm... been a while... umm config.sys you partition off some RAM and assign it a dirve name...  :crazy:  :crazy:  Ok my memory is hsoddy but it's very much in there... Windows Xp otoh does not support it so easy...

ED:(now repeat 50 times)  I will read the whole post before posting, I will read the whoel post beofre posting

didn't realize ya only cared for Win2000

[WarPiper]

@ jeffmix

thanks, its good to know how to do it for all the windows systems, thanks

[mikeymike]

Win9x had a ramdisk driver but it's 4MB max storage.