Gavotte Ramdisk Installation

Gavotte Ramdisk can use RAM to simulate a harddisk virtually. Frequently accessed data can move to Ramdisk to boost up the performance by improving the accessing speed. 

Steps of Gavotte Ramdisk installation for WinXP 32bit are as following:

1. Search and Download the Gavotte Ramdisk 1.0.4096.5 from the internet.

2. Extract all files to a folder.

3.  If using Ramdisk over 4G then 

   1. Use right click 'My Computer' and select 'property' to open 'System Properties'. Then check "Physical Address Extension" is in the 'General' tab to ensure mode PAE is available.

      

   2. By default, PAE  is enabled. If there is problem, it can be enabled by adding the /PAE switch in the boot entry.

      Change to the 'Advanced' tab in 'System Properties' and click 'Setting to open 'Startup and Recovery'. Then click 'Edit' to open 'boot.ini' in notepad

      

      Add '/PAE' switch to the end of operating system options. Then save and close opened windows.

       

   3. In order to use over 4G in Gavotte Ramdisk, a parameter as bellow should be added to the 'Window Registry'.

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RRamdisk\Parameters] "UsePAE"=dword:00000001

      The REG file 'ram4g.reg' provided with Gavotte package can be used to make alterations to the registry automatically.

4. Click 'ramdisk.exe' to start Gavotte Ramdisk installation.

   1. Press 'Install Ramdisk' to continue; or cancel to stop and exit.

       

   2. If UsePAE parameter is set to 1, the disk size is fixed to maximum. The function of Disk Size combo box is ineffective.

      Otherwise, the RamDisk size can be selected from the 'Disk Size' combo box.

       

   3. Select the Drive Letter from the 'Driver Letter' Combo box. And click 'Apply' to continue.

       

   4. Wait untill poping up with 'Success' MessageBox  and click 'OK' to continue. Then click 'OK' to exit.

         

   5. If pops up with 'Need Reboot' MessageBox, click 'OK' to continue. Then click 'OK' to exit and reboot the computer before continue.

         

5. Check the ramdisk with window explorer. For standard Ramdisk, the default Volume Label is "RamDisk"

      

   For Ramdisk over 4G, the default Volume Label is "RamDisk-PAE"

    

6. More information can refer to the 'readme.txt' file.