Comments on: Free Ramdisk for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and 2003 Server

By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:06:39 +0000

Ying, google “BootLand Gavotte’s RRamdisk, New version is out” then look for post #36, the zip file is at the bottom.

By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:01:01 +0000

Ying, I assume you are talking about the installer.

You should get file:

Gavotte_RAMDisk_1.0.4096.5_200811130.zip

In case of problems just google the file, it’s been posted on many Chinese forums.

By: Ying

Ying — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:05 +0000

Kirk Enston

Where can I download latest code of this ramdisk? I can’t find it.

Thanks

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By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:07:17 +0000

The only documentation is here:

1) http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/27/free-ramdisk-for-windows-vista-xp-2000-and-2003-server/2/

2) Readme.txt for version dated 2008-Jan-01, because the latest version is messed up with some non European characters.

Here are the screenshots, just in case:

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2435/10302009190037.png

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/278/10302009190114.png

Other than that, if you don’t speak Chinese you are out of luck (Gavotte is very popular on Chinese language forums).

It is a high quality RAM disk but getting any information beyond what’s available on this website is difficult.

By: SMac

SMac — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:09:28 +0000

Just some verbose documentation on command line parameters and some examples would be good for this product. Where is it?

By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:30:31 +0000

I’m wondering how to check if your hardware is compatible with ramdisk installed using PAE before you actually try to install it. The last thing you want to do is to damage the BIOS.

By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:17 +0000

Starting with the version in the ZIP file dated 2008-01-01 Gavotte allows accessing all 4 GB of RAM on a system with 32 bit Windows XP or Vista with 4GB of RAM installed. Here is the reference at the bottom of “readme.txt”:

01.01.2008 support >=4G ram under 32bit windows (UsePAE=1)

It is not explained, however, how to enable this feature. Before you install the ramdisk you need to click on the following file included in the ZIP package:

ram4g.reg

This will add a parameter to Windows registry that tells the driver to use PAE to push the ramdisk into non-addressable RAM.

In short, 36 bit PAE extensions increase the available pool of memory. If you want to know more about it then you can easily spend all night on Google studying hundreds of pages devoted to the topic.

I had no problem to get Gavotte working on my 3 year old system (Windows XP SP3), and now have 2.7 – 2.9 GB of memory available, as seen on the screen that opens after you hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4240/10242009175818.png

Others might not be so lucky, it all depends on BIOS, mother board chipset and CPU.

By: Kirk Enston

Kirk Enston — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:04 +0000

01.01.2008 support >=4G ram under 32bit windows (UsePAE=1)

It is not explained, however, how to enable this feature. Before you install the ramdisk you need to click on the following file included in the ZIP package:

ram4g.reg

This will add a parameter to Windows registry that tells the driver to use PAE to push the ramdisk into non-addressable RAM.

In short, 36 bit PAE extensions increase the available pool of memory in total. If you want to know more about it then you can easily spend all night on Google studying hundreds of pages devoted to the topic.

I had no problem to get Gavotte working on my 3 year old system (Windows XP SP3), and now have 2.7 – 2.9 GB of memory available, as seen on the screen that opens after you hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4240/10242009175818.png

Others might not be so lucky, it all depends on BIOS, mother board chipset and CPU.

By: freddyzdead

freddyzdead — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:19:56 +0000

@”someone”
You’re an anal-retentive dickhead, don’t you have better things to do than pick apart the OP’s post? We all knew what he meant by “it’s volatile and not solid state.” You think we’re all idiots and don’t know that ram is “solid state”? Sure, he meant “flash memory”, we all knew that, too. And your comment about “swap space” is too eye-rolling to even comment on. Leave the poor cnut alone.

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By: Khan

Khan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:26:17 +0000

@103
I think what he meant with “not solid state” is that data is not saved and “swap space” means a temporary folder for programs to work with.

By: ipguy

ipguy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:45:32 +0000

how does one automount the image at OS startup on Vista ?

By: hon_shu

hon_shu — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:19:29 +0000

The Gavotte tool is awesome, works like a charm under Windows2000. Thanks

By: kirsche40

kirsche40 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:27:14 +0000

Here is the original site of gavottes tool
http://www10.atwiki.jp/gavotterd/

Use Google-Translation tools to get it in a for you readable language.

By: kirsche40

kirsche40 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:01:08 +0000

@all who asks for a reason why using RAMDisk (RD) for Virtual Memory (VM)

A RD is allways useful because it is faster then any other Memory. Some applications, mostly games, use VM ignoring that your system has quite enough memory. So a RD for VM is an optimal solution.

With the new version of Gavottes RD we can use the previously not usable RAM above 4GByte frontier by using PAE in 32Bit environment.