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Ramdrive.sys came with MSDOS. Windows XP does not come with such a
feature as it would be non-productive. A ramdrive can store files
temporarily and loses its contents if the PC is rebooted or switched
off. Ok for storing temp files but your hard disk can do
that anyway.
Ramdrive provided a way to handle the sensitive data and
handle these file temporarily. The advantage of it is to
remove all security data automatically after the PC was
rebooted or switched. The other advantage is the running
speed is much faster the hard disk. It is good for
creating large amount of temporarily data inside it.
Unlike the hard disk, inside the Temp directory, all files
are not removed automatically. Many temp files need to
clean up manually. Some files are need to be removed to
the recycle bin and empty to clean up. Also, file was
not completely deleted by this procedure. If the user
using any utility like Norton Utility or Nortorn Undelete,
the deleted file may be undeleded and recover. To
completely delete the files, users needed to use some
Utility such as Norton Wipe Disk to clean up deleted data.
It waste time and losing productivity.
This is the reason why so many people like using ramdrive
to store temp data instead of their hard disk.
Although, ramdrive was come from eaily version of MS-DOS,
it is still supported under Windows 9x and Windows NT
environment. Of course, the old ramdrive.sys can't be used
and not exist under Windows XP, since they do not using
Autoexec.bat/Config.sys at start up. However, they use
the other way to start the ramdrive.
For Windows 2000 and XP users, they can get "ramdisk" form
the Microsoft Web Site, which should work fine as they
could have under MS-DOS.
