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How stupid is this? I decided that just for fun I should try to defragment the disk. This being a purely RAM based hard drive, it should have no bearing on it whatsoever. I defragmented the drive, which took maybe a minute, and then ran the test again and it got a 7.8. The test actually took much longer to run too. The only thing I can guess is that it might not have had enough "consecutive" free space to run, so it skipped the test.

Hello, I have recently got Windows 7 working on my ACARD ANS-9010 RAM Hard Drive, which had a mere 7.2GB capacity by using vLite to trim down the install. 7 still wouldn't install in that space, so I installed it, disabled the swap file and hibernate and got the used space down to around 3.6GB, and then cloned the install onto my RAM drive. The whole purpose of that exercise was to see what the Windows Experience Index would think of my hard drive. I was actually stunned to see that it got a 7.7! I knew the drive would perform well, I just didn't think it would perform quite THAT well. Yesterday I acquired an additional 4GB of RAM for my drive. Since I had removed a few too many things on my vLite install, I thought I would start over. I made me a new vLite disc and proceeded to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my RAM disc, this time I partitioned it manually to do away with the wasted 100MB "reserved" space as well. Everything seems to be working great. I noticed, however, that now my Windows Experience Index, scores a 5.9 for the Hard Drive. The test appears to run fine. When it gets to the hard drive section, it does access the drive for a second, according to the activity LED's on the drive. I don't get any errors, but when finished, it's always a 5.9. I have run some third party HD benchmarks and they show the HD as being as fast as it ever was. I have tried manually deleting the WinSAT data and re-running the test, it always comes back with 5.9. I was curious if anybody could lend some insight into this problem. Does it simply not have enough free space to run the test? I have 2.23GB free. Does it need that 100MB "reserved" partition to run the test? Ultimately it doesn't matter, the benchmark score doesn't actually make the system any faster, but it would be nice if it would report the actual performance, for bragging rights if nothing else. Any Ideas?

No problem.

Basically I'm trying to install it on a 8GB ANS-9010, which is very similar to your I-RAM. I couldn't find a disk space setting in vlite, at least note for x64. I was able to back into it though. I installed it to another drive, booted up, disabled hibernate and swap file. That got it down to 3.x GB. I then used Ghost to clone it to my RAM drive. It scores a 7.7 on the drive score, which is what I was looking for. I knew it would score high, I didn't expect it to score THAT high.

I was curious if there was any way to defeat the disk space requirements for Windows 7 such as can be done using nlite on Windows XP? It may be easy, but I haven't seen this option anywhere. I can use vLite to trim the install ISO down to 2GB, but when I got to install Windows 7 (64 bit) it still says I need some 8886MB to install, the same as it asked for before I used vLite and removed a bunch of stuff. I am trying to install Windows on a drive that formats out to roughly 7.2 GB. This is an extremely fast RAM drive, so I just wanted to run some benchmarks. I don't need the system to run very long as I know 7 would quickly bloat to fill the drive.