Vista - Problems with ReadyBoost... help please!

Having a problem trying to get ReadyBoost to work.

Cache was originally on a USB stick which is now lost.

I'm trying to get a new USB stick to work with ReadyBoost, but Vista keeps saying that there's a cache on another device and that it needs to be removed before a new cache can be made.

Obviously, since the old USB is long gone, this is quite impossible.

I've had no luck trying to reset ReadyBoost on my system so that it can accept a new device for ReadyBoost.

Please help!

Control panel/ admin settings/services, and disable ready boost
Disabling and re enabling will reset it.


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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:52:55 -0600, tiranot <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:

How much RAM do you have? In my experience, ReadyBoost is useful only
on computers with a small amounts of RAM---512MB to 1GB. And on such
computers, the money spent for the thumb drive would be better spent
on additional RAM. So in my view, ReadyBoost should be avoided.


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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:52:55 -0600, tiranot <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
It sounds like it is still plugged in.

Maybe you will find your lost USB stick still plugged into the back of the box.

Alpha: The lost USB is not plugged in. I've checked all 4 of my USB slots and my SD card slot... nothing there.

Ken: I'm running a laptop with 2 GB RAM. I know that it would be better to upgrade RAM, but thought this would be a good way to go about it with ReadyBoost.

Dave:

Yes, i've thought about trying to disable ReadyBoost and then re-enabling it again.

I've gone here:

Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools > Advance Tools > Configure My Windows ReadyBoost device

Is this what you meant? Because I can't find the pathway that you've stated. Can you be more specific?

Anyways, when i go through the aforementioned, when i click on "Configure My Windows ReadyBoost Device". Nothing happens! System doesn't even try to access anything, and there's no "working" symbol with the mouse cursor either.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 03:16:29 -0600, tiranot <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
The error that you quoted means that Vista thinks that it is already
running ReadyBoost on a drive in your system. So to try to find out
which one you could do the following:

-- start task manager (ctrl-shift-esc)
-- from there start Resource Monitor (Button on the Performance Tab)
-- Open up the Disk bar to see which processes are doing disk IO
-- Click on Write(B/min) to sort it with highest at the top
-- If you don't see a file called ReadyBoost.sfcache in the list
try opening a big program which you haven't opened for a while
(so not prefetched) and then check the list again.

Now if you see (say) F:\ReadyBoost.sfcache that would mean that
the device which is F: in your "Computer" view is the one acting
as a ReadyBoost.

Hi Alpha,

Sorry for lack of reply until now, i was away.

At any rate, I followed your instructions and found this:

Image: System

PID: 4

File: \device\harddiskvolume1\ReadyBoost.sf.cache

Write (b/min): 1,048,576

Again, i have no devices currently connected to my laptop. Is this something, like a remnant of the original cache set for ReadyBoost?

I just happened to catch that line by chance, because they seem to come and go, completely at random... but i suppose if i knew more about computers, it wouldn't seem so random to me

Thanks for your help on this!