Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Fri Apr 25 16:50:04 CDT 2003
A virtual disk uses MEMORY, not hard drive space. What you want is SUBST, which creates a Drive letter for a folder on your hard drive. ie, on your C: Drive, put a folder and call it XDrive. Then go to a DOS prompt and type: SUBST X: C:\XDrive Now you have a drive called X, which is really the XDrive folder on C:. But you can read and write to it, just like it's another drive or partition. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 3:08 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: OT: Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up a ram disk It's Friday - and I wanted to have a virtual disk - something like: - create a file; - assign a logical drive letter to it; - use this virtual(/logical) drive as if it were a real disk i.e. format it, create a file system (FAT or NTFS) on it, directory structure, files etc. RAMDisk from Q257405 isn't good choice for my wish because I wanted to have as big as possible virtual disk - limited to the size of the drive on which its file will be located... I hope there is somewhere a driver for such a virtual disk for Windows2000, anybody? Am I missing something obvious? TIA for any info, Shamil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at appdevgrp.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Setting up a ram disk > Also, check out MS KB article Q257405 for creating one under windows 2000. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:15 AM > To: AccessD > Subject: [AccessD] Setting up a ram disk > > > Does anyone know how to set up a ram disk in a batch file and run it when > windows starts? Help to do that? > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > www.ColbyConsulting.com > ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com