Installing Win7 on a RAM drive?

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niemi

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Been playing around with SuperSpeeds RamDisk 10.0 and it got me wondering if there, by chance, could be any of you knowing a way of utilizing the RAM disk as a primary disk for Win7?

I remember some years back a guy succeeding in booting on a RAMdrive, installing and running WinXP on it.
 
well since the ram drive isn't loaded until windows is, as the software that makes the ram drive has to start, i wouldn't think it is possible unless you had one of those gigabyte ram disk cards.....

also ram drives, loose all data once you reboot anyways....
 
On my PowerMac I was able to install an OS and boot from a ram drive. I had 144 MB of ram at the time... Of course OS were smaller back then.

Reboot was Ok as long as you didn't shutdown the computer the data remained there.
 
You could run a VM on the hardware, and then load an OS image into the ramdrive. You'd need more than the 12gb of ram that is the common upper limit on consumer mobos though...
 
Those ram disks usually have the option to save whats in the ram to disk and reload it so you don't loose what you're working on unless you loose power. But yeah i don't think you can run the os on it as the software runs on windows.
 
You'd either have to create something that would boot from the HD, load an image into the RAM, and then boot from that, or buy a special ram drive that would be an add-in card with an external power supply.

I can't remember any of the names off the top of my head, but they can be handled in a few ways. I think the fastest, though riskiest, would be one that is just RAM with a DC input on the back. You can get one that will image itself to the HD, too, but then you'll lose a lot of boot time, and they probably won't even function as a boot drive. The other option I've seen is one that had RAM and Flash in equal quantities. It had an external power connector, and would automatically back up to the Flash during a shutdown, and reload on boot. It claimed to only take 30s max to do either operation. It was also around $2500 for 4GB though.
 
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