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From: Eric Gisin on 22 Sep 2009 14:56
You want the Hitachi cfadisk disk filter driver (source included).
http://www.lancelhoff.com/downloads/USB_LocalDisk.zip
http://www.lancelhoff.com/make-windows-see-any-usb-flash-drive-as-local-disk/

However, I could not get pagefile.sys created with or without it.
I did run a disk editor on the root dir, and see numerous deleted pagefile.sys.

Ignore all the idiot trolls who claim temp/page usage will kill flash cards.
Ignore the raving lunatics who claim low-latency flash cannot do paging.
I am fed up with you ignorant fucks who show up in any thread about flash drives.

Pagefile is small random IO, and as long the drive has seek times of a few msec
it is much better than IDE hard drives with seek times over 10 msec.
My card reader with 1G SD has seek time of 2.5 msec, wish I could page on it.

"Mike Vandeman" <aaone(a)hushmail.com> wrote in message
news:O7k%23INyNKHA.5108(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I hope I'm in the right newsgroups.
>
> I have an Acer Aspire One, with 500 MB ram, an internal 8 GB 'system' SSD, to which I've
> installed an 16 GB SDHC card in the "storage expansion" slot. After one year of Linpus Linux,
> I've become disaffected with Linux and have begun installing and 'tweaking' Windows XP. A solid
> state drive is as fast as or faster than a spinning drive for reading data (generally) because
> read data transfer rate may be comparable and seek time is zero. After all, it is a random access
> device. However, write data transfer rates are perhaps half as fast because of the nature of SSD.
> Consequently, performance is reduced.
>
> In an effort to tweak for better performance, I have changed environmental variables to save
> temporary files in my 16 GB SDHC (drive D:) and moved the "Temporary Internet Files" folder to
> D:. The biggest improvement to performance came when I chose in 'Performance Options' 'Visual
> Effects', 'Adjust for Best Performance'. The display is a lot simpler and I think the improvement
> results because it uses a lot less paging for screen refresh.
>
> I think the best improvement to performance would come about of I could move the paging file to
> D:. I've run into a problem which is why I am here.
>
> The 16 GB SDHC solid state drive is marked as removable. I found it is not possible to do
> 'Optimize for Performance' with write caching on a removable SSD drive and any attempt to create
> a pagefile there fails with no error message. I would like to ask if there is a safely way
> 'tweak' the operating system to make the SDHC SDD 'nonremovable'. If I can find a way I would be
> more than happy to use a spot a crazy glue to insure it is physically nonremovable. On the Acer
> Aspire One there is a second slot that accepts a number of formats including up to a 16 GB SDHC,
> so I would lose nothing with a spot of crazy glue.
>
> I really like solid state drives because they are immune to G forces and do not spin. I lost one
> spinning drive in a laptop when it stopped spinning one month after the manufacturer's warranty
> expired.
>
> Thanks for your interest and for your help.
>
> m.
>
>

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