Vista - USB Flash Drive

Vista RC2, 1GB RAM
I purchased a 1GB HIGH SPEED Memorex USB flash drive mainly to use it for
Ready Boost. Vista recognizes it properly. I can read/write to it. But it
fails the Reeady Boost test. It came in FAT format. I changed the policy in
the device manager to optimize performance. Still It fails the Ready Boost
test.I reformatted the USB flash drive to NTFS. Still it fails the Ready
Boost test. I need your help to make it support Ready Boost.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017849,00.asp

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Rang" <Rang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Vista RC2, 1GB RAM
> I purchased a 1GB HIGH SPEED Memorex USB flash drive mainly to use it for
> Ready Boost. Vista recognizes it properly. I can read/write to it. But it
> fails the Reeady Boost test. It came in FAT format. I changed the policy
> in
> the device manager to optimize performance. Still It fails the Ready Boost
> test.I reformatted the USB flash drive to NTFS. Still it fails the Ready
> Boost test. I need your help to make it support Ready Boost.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017849,00.asp
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Rang" <Rang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5EA8E614-7B12-4714-BA14-1768E0E0249A@microsoft.com...
> > Vista RC2, 1GB RAM
> > I purchased a 1GB HIGH SPEED Memorex USB flash drive mainly to use it for
> > Ready Boost. Vista recognizes it properly. I can read/write to it. But it
> > fails the Reeady Boost test. It came in FAT format. I changed the policy
> > in
> > the device manager to optimize performance. Still It fails the Ready Boost
> > test.I reformatted the USB flash drive to NTFS. Still it fails the Ready
> > Boost test. I need your help to make it support Ready Boost.
>
>
> I had seen your referenced article before I bought the flash drive. That is why I matched the flash drive with the RAM. Other than that, that article does not help. My flash drive is High Speed. It took just about 10 secs to write 50MB file. I do not see it being slow. Can I do something else to make it support Ready Boost.

There is a registry hack that forces Vista to use a USB flash drive but you
may not see a speed increase. Some say you may see a speed decrease. Anyway,
that's for you to judge.

Here is an article explaining how to do the hack:

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/henkh.../05/13386.aspx

Hope this helps,

Yosh



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>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017849,00.asp
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "Rang" <Rang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5EA8E614-7B12-4714-BA14-1768E0E0249A@microsoft.com...
>> > Vista RC2, 1GB RAM
>> > I purchased a 1GB HIGH SPEED Memorex USB flash drive mainly to use it
>> > for
>> > Ready Boost. Vista recognizes it properly. I can read/write to it. But
>> > it
>> > fails the Reeady Boost test. It came in FAT format. I changed the
>> > policy
>> > in
>> > the device manager to optimize performance. Still It fails the Ready
>> > Boost
>> > test.I reformatted the USB flash drive to NTFS. Still it fails the
>> > Ready
>> > Boost test. I need your help to make it support Ready Boost.
>>
>>
>> I had seen your referenced article before I bought the flash drive. That
>> is why I matched the flash drive with the RAM. Other than that, that
>> article does not help. My flash drive is High Speed. It took just about
>> 10 secs to write 50MB file. I do not see it being slow. Can I do
>> something else to make it support Ready Boost.