RAM Drive Software

Hey guys I'm too lazy to go out and google for it so I thought I'de ask my fellow geeks. I'm looking for a free program that will let me take some of my RAM and set it up as a virtual hard drive. I've got 2 gigs of ram on my dell laptop and alot of it is just sitting there so I'de like to throw some of my mostly used small programs on there to speed things up. I don't care if the software doesnt have the ability to save to the normal drive upon shutdown/reboot. Just looking for something easy to use to set up a ram drive.

Thanks in advance

MS has a free Ramdisk that works for XP. Herre is a page with directions on installing and using it.
http://cyberwizardpit.net/article3.htm

Linky for info below: Link

Ramdisk software from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;en-us;Q257405
if you want to go with microsoft, but I think they have some limitations.


The Ramdisk software I used is FREE from Arsoft, unfortunately the software is not
any longer supported or being further developed but still available:
http://www.arsoft-online.de
Their current download location but I don't know for how long:
http://www.arsoft-online.de/index.p...&catid=14&order=dmdate_published&ascdesc=DESC

This is what I have used on many occasions before this for other speedy things. Personally I have not had any problems using. Just run the install, configure and unfortunately you will have to reboot to get the ramdrive operaitonal.

same stuff--different location in that thread (in case something above is broken)

I like the AR Soft RAMDisk as well, though I couldn't find it the last time I went searching for it. Thanks for digging it up again ghettocomp

QSoft RAMDisk is a pretty good one too, and can make pretty dang huge drives (the enterprise version supports up to a 64GB drive, though good luck finding a system with enough slots for all that ram! ). The big downside to it is that you either have to pay for a version that supports drives >64MB, or deal with annoing taskbar baloons.

JigPu

thanks guys man if only my whole machine were a ram drive