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Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown
Started by André Willik Valenti
André Willik Valenti
Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 04 November 2014, 03:11 |
Hello,
I've been enjoying SP RAMDisk for some months now. My ram disk is used to store temp stuff and I'd like it to be emptied when I shutdown or restart the computer. However, on Windows 8.1, this only happens if I restart the computer.
If I shut it down, when I turn it on, every file and folder is back to the ram disk. This means they were stored on my SSD during shutdown. This is exactly what I want to avoid: unnecessary writes to my SSD.
It's an NTFS, boot-time, removable disk. I tried changing to NTFS32 and non-removable, without success. Any ideas?
Thank you!
André
I've been enjoying SP RAMDisk for some months now. My ram disk is used to store temp stuff and I'd like it to be emptied when I shutdown or restart the computer. However, on Windows 8.1, this only happens if I restart the computer.
If I shut it down, when I turn it on, every file and folder is back to the ram disk. This means they were stored on my SSD during shutdown. This is exactly what I want to avoid: unnecessary writes to my SSD.
It's an NTFS, boot-time, removable disk. I tried changing to NTFS32 and non-removable, without success. Any ideas?
Thank you!
André
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 04 November 2014, 09:42 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
This is because Windows 8 features a so-called hybrid boot. Even when you shutdown the computer, it is not a real shutdown and Windows preserves the RAM disk's contents.
You may want to either disable hybrid boot or do a full shutdown.
You may want to either disable hybrid boot or do a full shutdown.
André Willik Valenti
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 04 November 2014, 22:56 |
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 04 November 2014, 23:07 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
You could just use a logon-time RAM disk rather than a boot-time RAM disk. This type of disk will be mounted upon log-on and unmounted upon log-off or shutdown, which may be exactly what you want.
André Willik Valenti
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 28 November 2014, 00:33 |
Thanks again for your answer. I tried that, but strangely RAMDisk appears to be no longer starting with Windows. It's configured to do so (even task manager says it does start with Windows) and it does create boot-time ram disks. However, it only creates logon-time ram disks if I start it manually. Any ideas?
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 28 November 2014, 14:16 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
André Willik Valenti
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 28 November 2014, 23:11 |
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 02 December 2014, 08:58 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
Humanoid1
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 16 August 2015, 22:45 |
Well thank you very much for your answer Andrew!
I really appreciate this solution as this issue have been annoying me for ages now (since starting to use your RAM Disk and trialling Windows 10) !
During initial setup I'd specified an img file on a secondary HDD and later canceled the img. Even going as far as deleting all RAMDisks and restarting from scratch and still seemed to have the lengthy 16GB RAMDisk being saved despite there being no file in the originally specified location. I'd edged towards the conclusion somehow the setting have been half cleaned and ended up defaulting to an alternate location on the C: SSD...
I would imagine it is well worth adding this tip to your help pages about creating backup image files. I'm sure this will help alleviate confusion with many people that do not yet know about Hybrid Boot on Windows 10 or even 8.
Leading up to finding this thread I must say I am very impressed with the speed of effective official responses to the many threads here. A lot of companies would do well to emulate such excellent caring service.
Thanks.
I really appreciate this solution as this issue have been annoying me for ages now (since starting to use your RAM Disk and trialling Windows 10) !
During initial setup I'd specified an img file on a secondary HDD and later canceled the img. Even going as far as deleting all RAMDisks and restarting from scratch and still seemed to have the lengthy 16GB RAMDisk being saved despite there being no file in the originally specified location. I'd edged towards the conclusion somehow the setting have been half cleaned and ended up defaulting to an alternate location on the C: SSD...
I would imagine it is well worth adding this tip to your help pages about creating backup image files. I'm sure this will help alleviate confusion with many people that do not yet know about Hybrid Boot on Windows 10 or even 8.
Leading up to finding this thread I must say I am very impressed with the speed of effective official responses to the many threads here. A lot of companies would do well to emulate such excellent caring service.
Thanks.
K
Re: Disk not emptied on Windows 8.1 shutdown 14 October 2015, 18:50 |