Hi Wonko,
Yes, (yes, yes, yes!). But first let's try clearing the possible causes of the issues you reported.
If your answer is YES, then I can assume all other forum user is also having some type of queer problem.
Even though, diskmod filter was applied successfully- meaning the system is able to manage paging
on its own.
As I mentioned earlier, I did tried on 2 different branded USB 3.0 pen drives, both are showing me the
same problem, it just couldn't finish installing the motherboard drivers. If I am installing Nvidia drivers
which is about 200MB, I will get a missing file in the TEMP directory, shown to me on the windows desktop
during the installation.
how fast, by comparison, the correspondet USB bus is. On good ol' USB 2.0 a USB hard disk "topped" at between 30 and 40 Mb/sec, whilst even fast USB sticks would be around HALF that speed. It is possible that the same happens with USB 3.0 and what you report are simply timing problems.
I thought USB3.0 pen drive is supposed to be backward-compatible with USB 2.0 bus, isn't it?
If the answer is YES....
Then, the speed of writing and reading should NOT be a problem, however, I would NOT get top speed
in USB3.0 range, that is all, since the bus is still using USB 2.0 speed, right?
Having a pagefile on a flash device (and having it managed by the system 
) is "pure folly" as I see it, you can run Windows alright (if you have enough RAM) and at the most - since a few programs do require the existence of pagefile, but this should NOT apply to your case - make a very small pagefile, manually set to fixed size.
When you stated pure folly, you actually mean to discourage me from using USB pen drive for installing Windows 7 on it, right?
Actually, to comment on the RAM size of my PC, it has 4GB of DDR3 RAM, which I thought should be no problem in
supporting Windows 7.
A simple e-sata disk (which is a "normal" SATA bus) is much more "direct" than any USB one (and still is hot-pluggable, though it doesn't apply to your case). For the record, DOM's (Disk on Module) devices: http://en.wikipedia..../Disk_on_module have been used traditionally on such "embedded" systems. DOM's use (at a dear price) "better" (if you prefer more "stable") memory chips than any USB stick you can normally find on the market. Get a SATA DOM (examples here): http://www.memorydep...iskonmodule.asp or a SSD and be done with it. (but still a "plain" Windows 7 is one of the least suitable OS for your goal) These modules are made for that, they suffer not from vibrations/shocks, have a wider operating temperature range when compared to hard disks, on the other side they are terribly expensive and offer very little capacity when compared to any hard disk. If size (and power consumption) is not an issue, get a conventional hard disk, again SATA/e-sata will behave better than any USB solution.
Thanks for your suggestion about IDE DOMs and SATA DOMs
I actually gone through a lot hard thinking of whether using SATA interface in my project
(IDE interface- forget about, it is already phased out, most newer motherboards don't have it).
I have set my goals that SATA interface will not be used for running Windows 7.
I am saving all SATA interfaces for storing CCTV footage only nothing else, since
they are very limited on ITX / Micro ATX motherboards (usually 4 SATA ports available)
That is why, all along, I am sticking to USB solution. If things did not turn out good.
I may have to abondon using USB 3.0 pen drive and switch to USB 3.0 hard disk
which I think is small and portable for my project.
May be, I may have to read this Post from the famous forum user Karyonix:
http://reboot.pro/to...sk-by-karyonix/
Appreciated if more forum users can give me some feedback about using
the Diskmod filter driver here!
Thank you.
Edited by liukuohao, 17 March 2013 - 03:32 AM.
