I am a little confused on this whole Ram drive concept and when you are supposed to use the menu option "Clear Ram Drive". Can somebody explain what this all means to me and why you would need to clean it?

Thanks

Sometimes your RAMDrive will fill up and you won't be able to run any more programs that require it until you free up some space.

Cheers

What a RAM drive is, it is a logical drive created out of unused RAM. It is a temporary drive that gets deleted and removed when the system either reboots or shutsdown. Have you ever booted the Win98 startup disk? If you have, then you have been using a RAM drive for about 10 years now. Same with the Win95 Boot disk as well. Did you ever notice that when you booted with that floppy that you had A:, C:, D: (for your CD-ROM), and E: for the RAM Drive? Dig out an old floppy and check it out.

The technology has been out for decades now.

As for clean the RAM drive option. That resets the RAM drive to the last boot of the UBCD disk and cleans out the tem,p files and anything you downloaded to it from the web. If you have small RAM in your system and you want to do alot iof things then you will have to clean it once in a while.

but once you reboot the ram drive gets cleaned out anyhow right? so you wouldn't have to manually clean out the ram drive in this instance if you reboot correct?

What drive letter does the ram drive use? how do you know it's a ram drive when you are using one of the file explorers? For instance, my computer has these drive letters for different partititions... C:, D:, E:, F:, G:

Now when I boot my system with the UBCD4Win disc, do all of these drive letters remain intact? and what drive letter does the Ram Drive get assigned? can you actually view the contents of the RAM drive as well, and also see how big the RAM drive is?

Thanks

also, how do you know how much free RAM you have.. like my system has 512 mb of ram, so how much of this is free when the cd is running? is there like a set amount of ram the cd requires to boot up, and then the rest is just left over as free ram?

Thanks

All I can say is... "wow."

DW

1. Yes it is cleared out at reboot, please read posts more completely


2. Ramdrive is always B:, your CD drive is X:. You said you have booted the project, correct? Did you ever take the time to read the information in the top right corner of your monitor when booted? It will give you this information:
CPU: 3.00 Intel 4
Memory: 384 MB (I'm using MS Virtual PC)
Temp: B:
SystemDrive: X:
Volumes: <<it will list all volumes recognized by UBCD4Win>>
<<since I am currently using it with MS Virtual PC, only the ram drive is listed>>:
B:\ 96.00 MB NTFS
Free Space: <<can't remember what all this will list>>
PE Build Time: 5/29/05 11:59PM


3. All hard drive numbers remain intact. The CD drive you boot the system with will be listed as X:, the system drive. Drive letter for the ram drive is already covered in #2. Yes, you can view the contents of the ram drive. The size of the ram drive is displayed on the screen. There are ways to refresh it, I don't think it automatically refreshes at the moment. You can easily open one of the file explorers and view the contents, space used, etc.

<<SQUALE>> Please use caution when posting. Take some of your own time in trying to figure out some of these simple things. We do not mind helping people, unless they try to abuse us. I and several others personally feel you are very close to crossing that line. In the week you have been a member here you have posted a lot of unnecessary questions because you do not take the time to check into it yourself. Do you think your time is more imporant than ours? You have honestly used up a lot of many people's time with your posts and hindered many of us from working on the new version. Which we hope to release soon, as long as we have time to actually work on it.

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:edit after my post, thanks for the "wow" comment Digi. You posted it as I was posting this reply!

Yes, thank you! I think you spoke for all of us there DigiWiz... the great one at it again!