Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up aramdisk

Clearly the advantage here is the speed of a RAM disk, an interesting idea.  I wonder if I can run Outlook Express and some SQL
queries in a RAM drive?
I too am puzzled by what the advantage sought is though...
Kind regards,
David Hingston
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lawrence (AccessD)" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up aramdisk


Hi Shamil:

A Ramdisk is limited by your unused memory. You could just create a
substitute drive by adding the line: subst x: c:\MyNewDrive, to your
autoexec.bat file on the root at the command prompt and then there would be
a drive as big as you local hard drive. (subst x: /d < to remove.)

If you want something permanent then you would have to use a program like
Partition Magic to create a new drive/partition on your existing drive.

HTH
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 1:08 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: OT: Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up a
ramdisk


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
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