How to load xp installation with ramdisk

Discussion in 'Windows XP / Older OS' started by giggitygoebbels, Mar 18, 2013.

  1. giggitygoebbels

    giggitygoebbels MDL Novice

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    I installed xp on a usb drive directly and it is very very slow.is there a way for me to make it load ramdisk image during boot and load it to ram so it will be fast?if need to use windows PE,can i make it load the xp image?thanks in advance.
     
  2. Galileo Figaro

    Galileo Figaro MDL Junior Member

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    You must have a swap file (or whatever the name for that is in Windows lingo) on an internal HDD. Putting it on a RAM-disk is an interesting idea though.