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| To meet the needs of system builders with custom deployment
requirements, Microsoft® provides a special edition of Windows®
XP Professional called Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).
In addition to assisting system builders, Windows PE can form the basis
for specialized remote diagnostic and troubleshooting solutions.
The Windows PE image is generally delivered to a remote target in an environment where all of the target’s storage devices are treated as read-only. This environment can present a serious challenge to creating viable custom solutions which depend on local storage. A local RAM disk can provide the needed storage footprint for such solutions. RamDisk for Windows PE supports the creation of a RAM disk in the read-only Windows PE environment. |
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| RAM Disk Functionality | RamDisk for Windows PE is based on RamDisk
8.0 Desktop Edition. To add RAM disk support to the Windows PE
image, binaries present in RamDisk 8.0 are copied to
the Windows PE image along with a special executable for Windows PE. Included
in the binaries are two digitally-signed kernel-mode drivers. One of these
drivers must be installed before a RAM disk can be created. Driver installation,
RAM disk device creation, and device and driver removal operations are
all performed by a command-line executable. This executable supports the
execution of operations via script.
The size of the RAM disk created while running Windows PE is fixed at the time the Windows PE image is built, specifically, when the RAM disk’s image file is created. RamDisk for Windows PE does not currently support setting the RAM disk’s size at run-time. The RAM disk can be created with or without a file system. Once created, the RAM disk can be formatted with FAT, FAT32 or NTFS, according to its size. The software devices associated with the RAM disk can be removed (uninstalled) without a system shutdown. |
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| Free Evaluation | To request a free evaluation copy of RamDisk for Windows
PE, or for more information about this product, please contact us at 1-877-388-7733, or email consultants@superspeed.com. |
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