Ram Drive comparison to Hard disk drive...

I am running XP on a 32 bit system. I have 16 gig of ram. I just installed SoftPerfect Ramdisk. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to get past the 2 gig limit?

Thanks

 

You should read this post:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2297061&postcount=7

Hi,

# 1 - Install Hard disk
# 2 - Format supplemental Hard Disk (or delete it's user content - empty drives are faster)
# 3 - Move Swap/Page File
# 4 - Configure Sandboxie to Ram Drive

I will leave step 1-2 to your imagination
Before you can move any - file system active content to the Ram Drive you must format it.
I use softperfect Ram Drive so it's very easy to do so. You must format it to NTFS for swap if it is to be bigger than 4 Gig


Step 3 - Move Swap/Page File





Step 4 - Configure Sandboxie to Ram Drive



I hope this helps...

 

My boot.ini looks like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /noguiboot

After /noguiboot I would then add the "/ PAE" as the instructions you reference suggest?

EDIT
Also, is the space needed between the / and the P?

 

The slash means Execute Feature, PAE is the feature...
so /PAE

Cheers!

 

Thanks Hermescomputers for the link. This is my RAM

 

@Hermescomputers
Oh thank you so much for your help ,it is so clear, i am able to do now.
You are really helpfull

 

My ram still shows at 3.1 gig after adding the pae extension.

It does show Physical address Extension in the control panel but it had that before i added /PAE

am i missing something?

XP Pro sp3 32bit 8gig ram

 

Your system will never see more than 3,5 GB of RAM, since it's 32 bit. PAE only allows RamDisk driver to use wasted RAM beyond 3,5 GB. Here is link to Gavotte Ramdisk and instructions how to set it up: http://www.jensscheffler.de/using-gavotte-ramdisk-in-windows-7

Regards, hqsec

 

OK, it seemed on the ram disk thread that a way to see if the PAE switch had worked was to launch system to see the RAM change after the boot.ini was edited.

ie from 3.1gig to 4gig

Anyhow i have used buffalodisk which uses the extra ram that 32bit cant see and it seems to be ok.
Although it is seen as FAT32 in drive properties and cannot be formatted as NTFS.

Gavotte doesnt have a mention if it supports 32bit pae so chose the slower buffalodisk

 

Just change to 64 bit and forget about it.

 

That will require a lot of work.

Also i would have to buy software which wouldnt work on win7 64