Virtual Hard Drive™ For Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Server 2003 User’s Guide
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 What is Virtual Hard Drive™? Virtual Hard Drive (hereinafter referred to as VHD) is a program that takes a portion of your system memory (RAM) and uses it to simulate a hard disk drive, dramatically increasing file read speed. Virtual Hard Drive boosts the performance of your programs by reading information in just nano-seconds! Virtual Hard Drive allows disk data to be accessed at physical memory speed.
Chapter 2 Installation 2.
To uninstall the Virtual Hard Drive program, click on Start in the Windows taskbar and select (a) Programs/Virtual Hard Drive/Uninstall Virtual Hard Drive; or (b) Start/Settings/Control Panel and double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon to open the Add/Remove Programs screen. Then select Virtual Hard Drive and click on the Add/Remove button. Either method will launch the Virtual Hard Drive Uninstall Wizard.
Chapter 3 Using Virtual Hard Drive 3.1 Launching Virtual Hard Drive Select Start on the Windows taskbar, then Programs\Virtual Hard Drive\Virtual Hard Drive Manager or double-click the Virtual Hard Drive icon program。 on the desktop to launch the VHD When launching VHD, the following screen (Fig. 2) will appear to prompt users to create a RAM Disk. Fig. 2 Note: If the Auto-load the image mounted last time option is enabled in Virtual Hard Drive settings (Fig.
¾ File system: Select a file system for your RAM Disk from the dropdown menu. Virtual Hard Drive supports three kinds of file systems: FAT, FAT32 and NTFS. Note: The file system is the overall structure in which files are named, stored and organized in an operating system. FAT, FAT32 and NTFS are three typical types of file systems.
3.2 Creating a RAM Disk Users can create a Ram Disk either upon launching VHD, or by clicking the and following the steps described in Chapter 3.1. button on the interface Note: If a RAM Disk already exists in your system, the message shown below (Fig. 6) will be displayed to warn you. Click "OK" and then click the “Delete” button the existing RAM Disk before you can create a new one. on the application interface to remove Fig. 6 3.
Fig. 7 Specify a file name and location for the image file, and then click Save to save it on your hard disk. 3.5 Mounting an image as a RAM Disk To mount a previously created image file on your hard disk as a RAM Disk, select the second radio button on the Create a RAM Disk window when launching Virtual Hard Drive, or click the interface. After clicking the button on the button, a window (Fig. 8) will be displayed. Fig.
Fig. 10 3.6 Removing RAM Disk from the system If you would like to “free up” the memory used by the RAM Disk, or modify the file system, drive letter and disk space of the RAM Disk, you need to remove the current RAM Disk. To remove the current RAM Disk, click the “Delete” button on the interface. The message shown below (Fig. 11) will be displayed and will ask you whether to save the data in the disk.
Note: If this option is enabled, you will not be asked to create a new RAM Disk at the startup of VHD as described in the instructions in chapter 3.1. ¾ Save the image upon restart or shutdown: Each time the PC is turned off or restarted, the image file will automatically be saved on your hard disk. ¾ Save the image during Sleep/Standby status: Each time the PC goes into Sleep or Hibernate status, the image file will automatically be saved on your hard disk.
Chapter 4 Appendix 4.1 FAQ Q1. When I try to create a RAM Disk, Virtual Hard Drive always displays the following message “The memory is not enough to be allocated for the specified RAM Disk”. How do I fix this? A: We recommend that you reserve part of the physical memory for your system. Otherwise, it will slow down your system. In order to do that, you cannot allocate all of the available memory for the RAM Disk. Q2.
