you need to wait a bit, on my box it took ~30 seconds to complete the installation. In the GUI of ramdisk.exe click on 'Install Ramdisk'.Īfter you clicked the button there will be a warning displayed by Windows Security to validate of you really would like to install the RAMDisk, click on 'Install this driver software anyway'. Navigate to the folder where the RAMDisk files have been extracted and start 'ramdisk.exe' with administrator permissions. The content of the REG file should look like this: In explorer locate the file 'ram4g.reg' within the extracted set of files from the RAMDisk, double click the file to add the registry settings. Reboot your PC to have the PAE mode effective.

Open a command line with elevated right (=run as administrator) and type the command. I came across the RAMDisk driver when reading the famous German computer magazine c't which published an article in edition 7/2009, page 78 called 'Ghost-Memory' (translated from German) Installation in of Gavotte RAMDisk in Windows 7 Step 1: Download RAMDisk Packageįirst you need to download the RAMDisk driver from a suitable location. It is just important to know that the RAMDisk is not persistent - so don't store any important stuff there - every reboot or power cycle the content is lost - so temporary files can be stored very good at this location. I use the RAMDisk for setting my page file to this area but you can also use it for setting the TEMP folder or other stuff there. The Gavotte RAMDisk is able to set the RAMDisk in the area above 4GB memory addresses and can enable the usage of this area for other purposes. Windows XP/Vista/7 32Bit editions are limited to 4GB RAM addresses so the memory above 4GB is just 'unused'. Question is actually: How does it work? If Microsoft limits Windows to 3GB RAM how can this be extended?Īnswer: Depending on the used hardware and BIOS configuration the non-usable memory between 3GB and 4GB (this is a area for reserved addresses for physical devices) is remapped to the area above 4GB. Using the RAMDisk driver I was able to use my full 4GB RAM in my Windows 32 Bit environment.

I was using Gavotte's edition of the Windows RAMDisk driver for a while in my windows XP installation for a while already and my results were so far really good.

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