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Topic # 111548 7-Nov-2012 10:13
I haven't had much experience with USB flash drives and a couple day ago it was my first time using Ready Boost on a 4gb USB Flash drive. I had to remove the Flash drive because I had to temporarily use the slot for a boot-able disk. I put the USB back in, I thought I could Format it and try Ready boost again, but it said that there was a program running in it and I couldn't Format it. Does this mean my USB is still actively using Ready boost or my USB is messed up? Thank you.

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Reply # 713391 7-Nov-2012 10:20
You will have to right-click, Properties and stop using ReadyBoost on that USB key. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

CyberN3rds

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Reply # 713449 7-Nov-2012 11:51
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

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Reply # 713473 7-Nov-2012 12:34
Do you think I can have 2x USB running ready boost?

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Reply # 713521 7-Nov-2012 13:48
Do you find it actually makes any difference. When I used it, it didn't seem to do anything to performance at all.

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Reply # 713524 7-Nov-2012 13:50
You can only have one. And getting more memory is a lot more effective. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 713539 7-Nov-2012 14:38
hmmm, I've heard about win7 to be able to have up to 8 devices. Just to9 verify, Is this true?

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Reply # 713545 7-Nov-2012 15:01
Correct, with Windows 7 you can have up to eight devices actually. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 713597 7-Nov-2012 16:33
Ok. Thank you.

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Reply # 714465 9-Nov-2012 04:04
ReadyBoost was an interesting stop gap measure but consumer USB flash disks are actually pretty slow and get slower over time (it seems) then ram and SSD's got cheaper, so they are far far better options now. Eg: You can get an Intel 330 SSD 120GB for ~$140 now.

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Reply # 716597 13-Nov-2012 18:47
consumer USB flash disks are actually pretty slow and get slower over time (it seems) and it seems some USB sticks just aren't usable at all I have two 4GB sticks and 1 16GB stick which just refuse to run ready boost here's a good article that get's a little more into it than MS does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost Asus Crosshair IV Formula AMD Phenom II X4 965BE, 8GB Corsair Vengence LP, Sapphire Radeon HD7850 2GB 950/1250, 1x WesternDigital WD2500AAJS 7200rpm 8MB cache SATAII , 1x Samsung spinpoin F1 HD502IJ 1x storage mode, 2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD502IJ RAID0 Boot, 1x Pioneer DVR212s 18x DVDRW, SilverStone ST75F-P (750W) Full Modular PSU, OS WINDOWS 7 x64 ultimate (7600), SilverStone RaVeN RV02B-W

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