scratch area of windows PE

[balubeto]

HI

What is the scratch area of windows PE?

THANKS

BYE

[allanf]

HI

What is the scratch area of windows PE?

THANKS

BYE

32MB by default. It can be increased to 512MB for Windows PE 2.1 and Windows PE 3.0. I think the limit on Windows PE 2.0 was 256MB.

Regards

[balubeto]

What is the function of the scratch area of windows PE?

THANKS

BYE

[Taco Bell]

The defined scratch area serves as the available free space on the WinPE system drive (X:) for temporarily storing files.

Therefore, if you have a scratch area of 32 MB, then you have 32 MB of free space on the system drive.

[Tripredacus]

This is correct. In addition, the scratch area is only available on Ramdisk builds. Treat it like a computer's actual RAM (since this is where it lives), so if you happen to put any files on the ramdisk (x:) and reboot, you will lose any of that information. You cannot permanently save any data to the X drive unless you use offline servicing on your WIM.