Hi Guys. This is really beyond my abilities as a geek. In short, I need to figure out how to format my [fixed disk letter] ramdisk that is created with a freeeware program called RRamdisk.sys to NTSF. The documentation for the prograom indicates that a script can be written to format the drive to NTSF using the rdutil utility, but I don't know how to do this. I was able to manually format the ramdrive to NTSF at the command prompt, but it would suck to have to do this each time I bootup.

By way of background, the reason why I want to do this is that I have a SSD and use the SRWare Iron browser (a derivative of Chrome). Unlike IE and Firefox, there is no easy way to change the default location for the cache files. I would like to change the location to my R: drive, my ramdrive. The browser has a lot of temp files and write activity, which slows down my computer with the constant hard drive access, and will eventually shorten the life of my SSD.

If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

First of all, I've never attempted to do what you are doing (though I understand why you are doing it, given the current relative expense of the better/larger SSDs), so I'm just throwing this out there for your consideration.

According to this website, which discusses speeding up Firefox by using your aforementioned RRAMDISK.SYS driver, it is possible to actually save and load ramdisk image files created using RRamdisk.sys by using the RAMDISK utility.

The obvious solution would be to create a formatted NTFS ramdisk image exactly like the one you are manually creating, then save that ramdisk as an image file. At boot time, use the RAMDISK "imagefilename" command in the Autoexec.bat file of your computer to load the image (just edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to add the command to load the ramdisk image you have saved). Because you would be loading your clean image each time you boot, you'd be avoiding the need to format at all (because the image file you are loading is already formatted -- at the time it was created and prior to being saved -- to NTFS).

Steltek, you inspired me to take another look at the documentation for rramdisk as it does have the ability to create and save images. It is poorly, or perhaps tersely, written document. I ended up just putting a format command in autoexec.bat. I then fiddled with junction v1.05 to create a junction from the cache directory on the c: drive to a new directory on the r: drive. It does appear to be working as intended, with all of the cache I/O now hitting the ramdrive instead of the ssd. Thanks for your help and inspiration.