TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) (06/19/91)
How do I make VDISK.SYS (the ramdisk supplied with IBM DOS) go away when I'm done with it? I don't care about the drive letter - that can stay around as a "used" drive letter. I just want my memory back. The situation is this: I create the ramdisk in extended memory with the /E option in config.sys. The autoexec then runs a program which downloads my "real" boot program from a network server to the ramdisk. After the autoexec runs this downloaded program, I have no use for the ramdisk anymore, and would like my memory back for other applications. I am familiar with a few shareware ramdisks which can be told to go away but I have not seen one yet that uses extended memory (which is a must). Please do not suggest that I download to a real disk, as this boot process will be running on every machine at our site, sometimes on write-protected floppies. Any help on recovering the extended memory, or pointers to ramdisks which already do this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Thomas Dwyer III Email: tomiii@mtu.edu Network Programmer tomiii@mtus5.BITNET Computing Technology Services Voice: (906) 487-2110 Michigan Technological University Fax: (906) 487-2787