FINDRAMD ships with Windows 98.
It is used to determine the drive letter used by a RAMdisk.
You can find it on the Emergency Boot Diskette that Windows creates right after its installation and in the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD
directory.
Usage:
FINDRAMD [ /? ] sweeps all possible drive letters to find ramdrive returns errorlevel for drive (C:=3)
The following batch file will display the RAMdisk drive letter:
@ECHO OFF REM Search for RAMdisk and store its drive REM letter in environment variable RAMDRIVE FINDRAMD IF ERRORLEVEL 255 GOTO NoRamDrive IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO NoRamDrive IF ERRORLEVEL 3 SET RAMDRIVE=C: IF ERRORLEVEL 4 SET RAMDRIVE=D: IF ERRORLEVEL 5 SET RAMDRIVE=E: IF ERRORLEVEL 6 SET RAMDRIVE=F: IF ERRORLEVEL 7 SET RAMDRIVE=G: IF ERRORLEVEL 8 SET RAMDRIVE=H: IF ERRORLEVEL 9 SET RAMDRIVE=I: IF ERRORLEVEL 10 SET RAMDRIVE=J: IF ERRORLEVEL 11 SET RAMDRIVE=K: IF ERRORLEVEL 12 SET RAMDRIVE=L: IF ERRORLEVEL 13 SET RAMDRIVE=M: IF ERRORLEVEL 14 SET RAMDRIVE=N: IF ERRORLEVEL 15 SET RAMDRIVE=O: IF ERRORLEVEL 16 SET RAMDRIVE=P: IF ERRORLEVEL 17 SET RAMDRIVE=Q: IF ERRORLEVEL 18 SET RAMDRIVE=R: IF ERRORLEVEL 19 SET RAMDRIVE=S: IF ERRORLEVEL 20 SET RAMDRIVE=T: IF ERRORLEVEL 21 SET RAMDRIVE=U: IF ERRORLEVEL 22 SET RAMDRIVE=V: IF ERRORLEVEL 23 SET RAMDRIVE=W: IF ERRORLEVEL 24 SET RAMDRIVE=X: IF ERRORLEVEL 25 SET RAMDRIVE=Y: IF ERRORLEVEL 26 SET RAMDRIVE=Z: IF ERRORLEVEL 27 GOTO NoRamDrive ECHO RAMdisk drive letter is %RAMDRIVE% GOTO End :NoRamDrive ECHO Unable to locate RAMdisk SET RAMDRIVE= :End
Thanks for Jason Brown, who corrected a "fatal" typo.
In Windows XP Professional and later versions, use WMIC to find RAM disks:
WMIC.EXE Path Win32_LogicalDisk Where "MediaType=6" Get DeviceID
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