Actually, there are all manner of uses for one. Do you really believe that
Mass Storage will remain "Magnetic" ? I saw an article on a new RAM
based peripheral drive that has 8.0 Gigabytes of physical memory on a
technology website yesterday. For a long time I used a RAM Drive from
a company called Cenatek. It held my Temp folders and IE caches that
where purged at every boot. I also used it as Temp space for multimedia
processing. While a RAM Drive isn't something for everybody. Don't
make light of somebody's desire to investigate and use one, there are a
number of practical uses for one.

"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> WHY do you want a RAM disk???
>
> "anthony_arnold@newsgroups.nospam" wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that Windows XP and 2003 come with a RAM Disk driver. I
>> have
>> installed the Windows RAM Disk Controller and the Windows RAM Disk Device
>> (Volume) but I don't seem to have created a RAM disk. I have looked at
>> KB257405 which gives the Windows 2000 sample RAM Disk driver and used
>> these
>> registry settings with no sucess.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to get the RAM Disk driver working with
>> Windows XP and 2003 or tell me that it is not possible to get this driver
>> working. I know that there are a number of free / commercial RAM Disks
>> on
>> the market, however I'd rath stick to a driver that is built into
>> Windows.
>>
>>
>>