Re: Need Help Creating Ramdisk from DOS

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:47:56 -0700

Actually, if you use the Windows 98 Bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com, it
will create this Ramdisk for you. What you want to do is use that
Windows 98 Bootdisk, put your Flash utility on the disk as well as the
new BIOS. Then boot to do and use the flash utility to write the new BIOS.

Here is the latest BIOS:
http://216.158.218.35/edoc/bios_uploads/6728v37.zip

Here is a guide for flashing your motherboard (try the second one):
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_AMI.asp
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_NON_FAT.asp

Note: The BIOS Flashing Utility comes with the above linked BIOS as well
as instructions in the zip file. 

----
Nathan McNulty
teimu wrote:
> Hello,
> My new motherboard, a MSI 865PE-PLS came with an outdated 
> BIOS that will not recognize SATA HDDs, which i have. I 
> have an update for the problem, but this requires me to 
> flash the bios. It is highly recommended not to run the 
> flash utility from an optical drive, so I must look to my 
> RAM. I could just get an ATA HDD, but i simply do not 
> have the resources.
> 
> What i need to do is create a RAM drive. I have read much 
> about creating RAM drives, but most of them are programs 
> to run within Windows, all i have is a DOS prompt via XP 
> HOME bootdisk. I did come across one guide that told how 
> to make a RAM drive thru DOS, but it required either a 
> Win98, Win98SE, WinME bootdisk, all of which i do not 
> have.
> 
> There is a place, bootdisk.com that offers those OS's 
> bootdisks, but i would rather an OFFICIAL disk made by 
> Windows itself. Or perhaps just a recommendation from 
> anyone reading this to tell me the validity of those 
> images.
> 
> Maybe just for fun though, there is a way to make a RAM 
> drive in XP's version of DOS (watever that is)?
> 
> The drive must also be able to be deleted, not in the 
> sense that data within it will be deleted(as it is every 
> time you boot), but i would like it if windows would be 
> able to reallocate that memory back in to its regular 
> functional state. i dont think this should be a problem, 
> i think perhaps whole drive, and any trace of it, will be 
> deleted with a shutdown, but i am not sure.
> 
> The drive also has to be able to be assigned a letter
> (ex. "X:\").
> 
> just thinking out loud here, but what filesystem would it 
> use?
> 
> I think thats about all i can tell about my 
> problem...Thanks for reading and ANY HELP would be 
> greatly apprieciated!!!
>

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