Hey guys, I believe I heard this somewhere before, and my little brother who is stuck with a older pc really wants me to do this for him. I heard you can turn a flash drive into RAM for your comp, and it sounded like a pretty good idea. He's got a gig flash drive, and his comp is pretty old, so do you think you guys could give me some advice on doing this, if possible? I understand theres only so much RAM a comp will allow itself, but the more the merrier. I surfed around a bit but I didn't find any information on this, so does anyone know how to do this? Or know of a place that's got the information? Anything? Please and thanks to all replies.

I heard you can turn a flash drive into RAM for your comp,.. In Vista you can. In XP I dunno. i_XpUser

Perhaps this will clarify the reality http://ask-leo.com/can_i_use_a_usb_... Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Hi Wanderer I believe Ask Leo ought to update the page now that Windows Vista has introduced ... Windows ReadyBoost. It's a feature that manipulates flash drives to act as RAM drive. i_XpUser

XPUser, I think he already did ;-) "ReadyBoost does not actually add to the available system RAM, but rather adds the memory to Vista's new "SuperFetch" feature. You can read more about ReadyBoost here: http://ask-leo.com/d-readyboost and SuperFetch here http://ask-leo.com/d-superfetch Leo http://ask-leo.com/can_i_use_a_usb_... Give it up for MC Rove

Hey saber - The http://ask-leo.com/d-readyboost link you gave above is redirected to the same link I gave in Response No. 3, as did http://ask-leo.com/d-superfetch that brings you to M$ page. i_XpUser

Thanks to all who replied, I didn't think it was possible, but like I said, I thought I had heard about it somewhere, so I just wanted to verify.