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Mark,
A ram disk is used basically for temporary storage of information allowing for speedier access. The more Ram you have the larger the drive can be. Keep in mind, once a ram drive is created any info that is stored there is lost once the system is rebooted or shutdown
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Here is the definition from www.webopedia.com
"Refers to RAM that has been configured to simulate a disk drive. You can access files on a RAM disk as you would access files on a real disk. RAM disks, however, are approximately a thousand times faster than hard disk drives. They are particularly useful, therefore, for applications that require frequent disk accesses.
Because they are made of normal RAM, RAM disks lose their contents once the computer is turned off. To use a RAM disk, therefore, you need to copy files from a real hard disk at the beginning of the session and then copy the files back to the hard disk before you turn the computer off. Note that if there is a power failure, you will lose whatever data is on the RAM disk. (Some RAM disks come with a battery backup to make them more stable.)
A RAM disk is also called a RAM drive."
Microsoft uses this as a temporary disk during the installation of windows98.
You boot from the start-up floppy for win98 and the system creates a temporary drive (with a drive letter assigned)from the RAM that is on your computer.
As stated earlier, this is only temporary, to expand some of the files for the set-up on windows98, and once shut down, all information in the Ramdrive is gone.
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You add this to your config.sys.
Useing your memery you make another drive.
So when you boot up the computer thinks you have two hard drives. C: and D:inless you have a cd-rom then it will be the next letter in line.the command in the config.sys will look something like this. DEVICE=C:DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS
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my computer is operating on Ram-drive due to bootup after a virus mess. how do I get rid of it and get back to my normal ram and drives??
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