XXHighEnd

Am anticipating having the time to set up some RAMDISC drives this weekend. Currently I have a 3tb drive with W8 loaded on a 60 gig partition and W7 and all music in the other partition. Questions:

1. When creating a RAMDISC partition to put XX on can I just copy/paste my current 9Z-8-1a folder from my 60 gig W8 partition into the RAMDISC partition or do I need to reinstall XX into  a new folder on the RAMDISC?

2. Will I be able to use the XX/Ramdisc drive, assuming I 'm also using a RAMDISC playback drive, in either W8 or W7 or will drive letters change and, therefore, be a problem when I switch between OS's? Hope this makes sense.

You can copy XXHighEnd to the root, I think. I myself use an additional folder for it though.
You must also copy the (consistent) XXData folder to the root of the RAMDisk (actually : what you denoted in Settings for your XXData folder of course).

Anticipate driver letters changing (well, opposed to how you have it on the hdd) but this will logically follow from what you see. So, denote the new drive letter in the Playback Drive setting.
Since you will be able to determine the driver letter(s) yourself, you will get it done to your likings; having it all the same in both OSes can be done (but a bit depending what's attached to either OS of course).

I would not put my XX folder and XXData on the same source accessible from both OSes. You can, but since both need different settings, you will fall in that pitfall at some stage. Better have them both different, but this is up to you.

In either case you copy whatever the source is to the RAMDisk after boot up.

Peter

Hello Peter

I have a problem with the IMdisks configuration or with the XXHE setup. I am not sure. The question is that when I clear the playlist, the music charged in the Playback drive remains on it. Besides that, the same happens in the XXHE folder in such a way that it fills progressively the two folders. Only when I shut down the program the folders go empty again. Is this normal? I have never detected it before. This happens in unattended mode. In attended seems to work OK.
Besides that, and although I don't know if it is related, when I minimize the XXHE interface it doesn't go to the taskbar and I need to call the program again and kill one of the two instances running.

Maxi

Hi Maxi,

Do you enter something under the "Image File" window ?

Alain

Edit: Sorry, I mean when you want to mount a virtual drive with Imdisk, do you enter something under the "Image file" field ?

Here is how I define a virtual disk with Imdisk...
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In this case, I want to create a 2GB virtual drive. I define it as a harddisk volume. The drive letter will be "D:", provided that it is available, otherwise I can specify another letter.

In the lower left end of the window, you can see that I checked "Removable Media", as it allows it to be formatted like a USB key, so I can use the ExFat type of formatting...

I haven't experienced the behavior you describe, but it does not mean that you are doing something wrong... I use this with W7 and W8 and all seems to work fine up to now...

Alain

This is how it appears after I am done (press "OK")...
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Hi Alan,

No, I didn't write anything in the image field but I left auto ticked and I didn't tick removable so I'll try your settings.

Thank you!

Humm, maybe this is something to do with different RAMdisk software or just that I used fresh installs of W7 and W8 with RAMdisks already created - I installed XXHE directly to a RAMdisk in each OS, rather than copying from somewhere else.  So each XXHE is free to have its own settings, not deriving them from elsewhere.

Yes, and it always has been so. Use the [ C ] button to clear these things from "disk".


I have seen this too, but not always. This is a W8 problem and can happen to any program, as far as I have seen it. I am fairly sure I already saw that before I started to use that W7 shell, but I can't gurantee that ...
Btw, not even Alt-tab will show the program; very annoying.

Regards,
Peter