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RAMdisk on XP 32bit - brainstorming!

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Nod5:
f0dder: try the Dataram RAMDisk then. Free for <4GB disks which seems plenty big for a ramdisk.

4wd: great! I will try Gavotte once I upgrade.

Here's a translation of the forum page linked above (which seems to be the first page the author uses to post his updates to)
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.et8.net%2Fbbs%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D906641&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0=

If I understand that list correct there are two releases of the v1.4096.5. Which one are you running? We should make a list of releases and their MD5/SHA1 hashes. I share f0dders sentiments about the lack of an official website. I'm in general a bit wary about running software from posts in forums where I can't read the context directly, there always a risk of missing some important info or run the risk of installing malware. That forum seems legit though but I'd be more comfortable if it was a program that was also carried by major download sites like filehippo.com . Open source would be best for this type of tool, I agree on that.

Nod5:
Another ramdisk discussion thread:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1507
That thread and others mention "ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver" which is open source. But it doesn't seem to be a ramdisk, more a virtualization software or a daemon tools like program. Or?
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk
edit: it seems to be a ramdisk. Not sure if it can make use of the >3.x GB memory parts in win XP 32bit though.
quote from: http://www.ltr-data.se/files/imdisk_screenshot.gif
"If you want to create a virtual disk backed by memory instead of an image file, leave the image file field blank and just enter a size in the size field."

4wd:
4wd: great! I will try Gavotte once I upgrade.

Here's a translation of the forum page linked above (which seems to be the first page the author uses to post his updates to)
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.et8.net%2Fbbs%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D906641&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0=

If I understand that list correct there are two releases of the v1.4096.5. Which one are you running?-Nod5 (May 10, 2009, 03:00 PM)
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I'm running the one from here which is the first link on the wiki page I mention below.

BTW, here's a comment from Gameeer.com re. Gavotte:
Great utility. Highly recommended especially if you have 2GB of RAM installed. Easy to set up a RAMdisk, which is essentially a virtual hard drive using your free RAM. I use a 512MB RAMdisk to store my Windows Temp Files and internet browser cache files. Keep in mind that once you restart your PC, however, anything stored in the RAMdisk is purged (lost). For some reason cookie files remain intact after I reboot. This is a good thing IMHO, but haven't figured out why or how to NOT have it do this.
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So, you get persistent cookies :)

Here's their article on setting up a RamDisk using Gavotte on the EeePC.  It doesn't take into account having RAM over 2GB of course but does tell you how to config IE, Firefox and Windows to use it for temp files.

We should make a list of releases and their MD5/SHA1 hashes. I share f0dders sentiments about the lack of an official website.
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Here's the home site AFAICT, it's using a wiki page....but then again, so is a lot of other software.

That forum seems legit though but I'd be more comfortable if it was a program that was also carried by major download sites like filehippo.com .
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Gavotte is also used by Boot Land on a lot of their WinPE type disks. Which are frequented by the likes of jaclaz who is well known on MSFN, UBCD4Win and others - I'm sure if there was something dodgy with it, the folks at Boot Land, WinImage, MSFN, WinBuilder, etc would have found out by now.

BTW, I rarely use major download sites, (a lot of the software I seem to use I find on a small home pages, wiki, forum, etc, hidden away somewhere), so I don't count being carried by the likes of Tucows, filehippo, (which I've only just looked at), SoftPedia, etc, as an advantage.

Boot Land forum sticky: RAMdisk and FILEdisk drivers  - EDIT: Ooppss!  I see you mentioned it in your post above but I failed to pick up on it without the thread title, so I'll leave it here to indicate what it's about.

Nod5:
4wd: right, if there was malware in Gavotte ramdisk then, as you say, many of the veterans at places like Boot Land would have reported on it. So I think it is clean. That said, anyone could of course name a file ramdisk and upload somewhere so it makes sense to download from several places and compare hashes I think.

Tried ImDisk now - it works great! I'm adding it to the list above. It installed very quickly. It created no shortcut - I had to make a shortcut to C:\WINDOWS\system32\imdisk.cpl myself. Great that it is actively developed. A bonus is that it can also mount regular .iso files so it can replace Daemon Tools or SlySoft CloneDisk in many cases.

There's a subforum dedicated to ImDisk at http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=59 and the ImDisk developer participates in it. But ImDisk can't use memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit.

edbro:
I use Farstone's ramdisk (forget the official name and I'm at work). The main reason I like it is because it will automatically save the disk image at shudown or whenever you specify. That is important to me because I put my entire Firefox profile on the ramdisk. I want to preserve any changes I make to it. I have been very pleased with the product and the speed increase in runnng my FF profile off the ramdisk.

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