>The "device=...." command from earlier versions of Windows (win 98 and before) apparently does not work with Windows XP. My research on this latter question is superficial. I would be very interested if one could create a RAM drive on XP without a third party utility.
Windows 98 uses/used RAMDRIVE.SYS which is not included with W2000/XP.
Here are some free (and not free) RAM disk references, one with source from MS:
http://www.surasoft.com/tut/ramdisk.htmhttp://www.codeguru.com/system/RAMDisk.html
