RamDiskPlus file not seen at boot

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Started 2 years ago by Vienna
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Vienna
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Hello,

i use a 612MB Ramdisk as Drive X: for Windows 7 Readyboost and it works without any problems. If i try to use this Ramdisk with Eboostr then after creating it after next reeboot the Drive is ignored or invisible for Eboostr even if the Ramdisk is loaded, Eboostr just shows an emtpy cache list.

if i manualy add the drive again and rebuild it, its there until i reboot, then Eboostr doesnt see it anymore. Could it be that Eboostr loads before my Ramdisk and so fails to recognize and load it ?

If so, how do i get Eboostr to load after the Ramdisk Mounts while boot ?

As i said, with Readyboost the Ramdisk works perfect and the speed increases alot.

Posted 2 years ago #
mradr
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How it works is, windows knows that the drive your using is going to be unplug and will delete the data on shutdown and then rebuild it on start up when the drive comes back. Eboostr on the other hand doesn't rebuild it back into the ramdisk autoly. You'll have to do that you'r self unless your ramdisk can make a shadowcopy of whats in the ramdisk and load the shadowcopy of it back in at start up.

Ramdisk is ram; everything in ram is deleted on shutdown; theres no other way around unless you can make a shadowcopy of it.

(I did this test with a USB. With readyboost on, shutdown time increased another 3-5s cause it has to wipe the usb of the cache while eboostr doesn't care and keeps it's data on the cache decreasing shutdown time by 2-3s.)

Posted 2 years ago #
Vienna
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i have a shadowcopy of the ramdisk content on drive S: which is loaded every boot from ramdiskplus.

as i said it works perfect with readyboost but not with Eboostr.

Posted 2 years ago #
mradr
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Sorry Vienna. I must have misread or over look something. *I answerd so many of them in one blow out lol. Eboostr should pay me:)*

Yes your right tho, one is loading faster or slower than the other one resulting in one not seeing each other. (This can be a issue when using eboostr built in ramdisk cache too.) One way is to take the startup icon out of the start up file and then have windows start it up later using the task scheduler.
http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/08/21/how-to-schedule-a-program-to-run-at-specified-time-in-windows-7/

Why not just let eboostr make its own drive instead to see if that works better?

Posted 2 years ago #
jujdred
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Not sure what OS you are using, but Win 7 has built in RAM disk I "heard" that works pretty good.

However, I use DataRam RamDisk and it works "almost" perfectly.

When you create the ramdisk image, you can set the parameters you are mentioning here within the setup box spanning 3 little tabs.

DataRam RamDisk lets you easily format the drive, mount it in WMI, save the image somewhere, save a "shadow" copy upon shutting down windows, or force a save at any time if you like. Then, on restart, even though all data was deleted, you can set the time that the ramdisk loads to help circumvent this issue. However, it might be a good idea to NOT load eBoostr automatically on startup as the disk won't be there for it to see until your timer ticks down.

Note: could we be experiencing a bug here? I use 3 seperate sources for my eBoostr caches. I am using a RAMDisk, a USB Flash drive, and a little micro SD card. All mainly just for testing purposes really.

When I installed eBoostr, built my cache, and commenced to play all was well, for a time. Not sure at what point it started, but eBoostr stopped loading ANY of the disks. I have to manually reformat each of the drives everytime I restart windows or crash for whatever reason.
One way I "think" this can be fixed is if the cache disks are unloaded and disk cacheing stopped before shut down. I say this because if I do manually do just that from within eBoostr control panel, upon reboot, it loads each disk successfully.

Since this just recently started happening, I'm gonna reinstall Windows and start fresh with the same setup and see if I can't catch it when it starts.

Posted 2 years ago #
jujdred
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mradr wrote:
Why not just let eboostr make its own drive instead to see if that works better?

You know, I never even considered that. lol. Was so focused on the setup I used from Vista. will check that.

Posted 2 years ago #
Vienna
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windows 7 has no integrated ramdisk, at least i never heared of that.

Posted 2 years ago #
jujdred
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Vienna wrote:
windows 7 has no integrated ramdisk, at least i never heared of that.

You are correct. RamDisk.sys by microsoft was a 'sample' for windows 2000 that sucked badly. I heard that Windows XP and 2003 DID come with a RAM Disk driver; that or it was just the same one from Win2000 but actually functional. Ram Disks have apparently been around for a long time, but only fairly recently with advent of megagigs of RAM and SSD's, etc, 3rd parties have developed some really superior products based around that concept.

The only info I can muster up was at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257405

Back on task; in an attempt to remodel my eBoostr by letting it make it's own drive, my system all of a sudden got all cranky. I'm dead tired from playing Dragon Age for 12 hours straight and a bit ticked that I get to do it all again because something happened to corrupt my data and I get to reinstall Dragon Age all over again. Huge chunks of my inventory are randomly disappearing and Shale, the golem from the add on, decided he was no longer made of rock, but mud and hence his defense dropped to 0 and would not go up.

I'll attempt to repro my error by this weekend.

Posted 2 years ago #
mradr
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Sounds more like a virus than a bug from eboostr lol. Usally game data (if online) is saved via the server. This could mean that the server is messing with you or someone could've hack your account. I never plaied Dragon Age, so I can't say either way, but do keep us updated.

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