Virtual Disk drive

Is it possible to have a a virtual disk drive in Vista, so that the drive
has a letter such as X: and the contents are held in memory and therefore
completely destroyed when the computer is powered off.

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Michael Chare

Microsoft Virtual Machine.

Google.


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joel406

Virtual machine and virtual disk are not the same thing.
I believe the OP is referring to what used to be called a ramdisk.
If anybody remembers the old dos settings to set up a ramdisk on bootup,
then they might be worth a try to see if they work here. However, I think
you'd need a boot.ini and/or config.sys and/or autoexec.bat file for that to
work. Does Vista even look for those at startup?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the contents of a virtual MACHINE do not get
wiped out when you power down the computer. I think you have to manually
destroy the virtual MACHINE and/or its VHD image.
A ramdisk, however, does lose everything when the machine's powered down.


"joel406" <> wrote in message
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> Microsoft Virtual Machine.
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> Google.
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> joel406

You mean ramdisk? Found these, haven't tried any.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...d-2003-server/

http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/06/...disk-for-free/



"Michael Chare" <> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to have a a virtual disk drive in Vista, so that the drive
> has a letter such as X: and the contents are held in memory and therefore
> completely destroyed when the computer is powered off.
>
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> Michael Chare

"DP" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> Virtual machine and virtual disk are not the same thing.
> I believe the OP is referring to what used to be called a ramdisk.
> If anybody remembers the old dos settings to set up a ramdisk on bootup,
> then they might be worth a try to see if they work here. However, I think
> you'd need a boot.ini and/or config.sys and/or autoexec.bat file for that
> to work. Does Vista even look for those at startup?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the contents of a virtual MACHINE do not get
> wiped out when you power down the computer. I think you have to manually
> destroy the virtual MACHINE and/or its VHD image.
> A ramdisk, however, does lose everything when the machine's powered down.
>


You are quite right! I was sure that the idea was not novel and that I had
come across it before. Just forgot the term 'ramdisk'



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Michael Chare

"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> You mean ramdisk? Found these, haven't tried any.
>
> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...d-2003-server/
>
> http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/06/...disk-for-free/
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>

Yes that is just what I want. Thank you.

I want to keep an encrypted file. I have found a little utility which will
do the encryption / decryption but I want to make sure that the decrypted
version is fully erased when I delete it.

Alternatvely are there any decryted file viewers. i.e. something that would
let me read the original contents of a text file that had been encrypted?


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Michael Chare

Michael Chare wrote:
> "Dave" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> You mean ramdisk? Found these, haven't tried any.
>>
>> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...d-2003-server/
>>
>>
>> http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/06/...disk-for-free/
>>
>>
>
> Yes that is just what I want. Thank you.
>
> I want to keep an encrypted file. I have found a little utility which
> will do the encryption / decryption but I want to make sure that the
> decrypted version is fully erased when I delete it.

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. The contents of the ramdisk might
well end up in your swap file

Alun Harford

"Alun Harford" <> wrote in message
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> Michael Chare wrote:
>> "Dave" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> You mean ramdisk? Found these, haven't tried any.
>>>
>>> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...d-2003-server/
>>>
>>> http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/06/...disk-for-free/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes that is just what I want. Thank you.
>>
>> I want to keep an encrypted file. I have found a little utility which
>> will do the encryption / decryption but I want to make sure that the
>> decrypted version is fully erased when I delete it.
>
> Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. The contents of the ramdisk might
> well end up in your swap file

Some versions of vista support encrypted file systems.. these are for such
uses as these and yes remember to encrypt the drive the swap file is on.

Anyone find a working RAMDISK program for x64?


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breedingh8