aurgathor Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I'm setting up a PC, and decided that I'll try to turn some of the 1 Gig ram I have into a ramdrive that will be used as a swap space for Win98. Anyone tried this before? Which ramdrive program did you use, or which one would be the best from the below list:I strongly suggest to replace primitive ramdrive.sys with Xmsdsk/Emsdsk or SRDisk [scroll further down]:http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm#OSRTIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EAT MY DUST Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 If you have 1 gig, I suggest ditching the swapfile and adding ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 to your system.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azagahl Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) With only 1 GB you could just use all of the memory in 98 SE. Make sure you use the Unofficial 98 SE Service Pack 2.1a.If you want to devote some to a ram disk and place swap file there (a good idea if you have more than 1 GB), then use XMSDSK, also known as furd19i.zip. Edited May 18, 2006 by azagahl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chozo4 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) Just to note - if you have a bootloader installed such as "EZ-Bios"... loading a ramdisk will cause windows to not load into the GUI.Been meaning to put time into removing the bloody thing but keep putting it off since I pulled this disk from my older PC. The ramdrive idea works fine on all my other systems that don't have a bootloader installed. Edited May 18, 2006 by Chozo4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurgathor Posted May 20, 2006 Author Share Posted May 20, 2006 I don't have anything like EZ-BIOS on any of my HDs -- had it on one a long time ago, but I removed it since it was a constant source of irritation. Which ramdrive do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 How to set up + tweak a RAM drive using XMSDSK in Win9x:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip12.htm#CACHRAMHTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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