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Erasing a ram disk 84, Resizing or removing a ram disk 84, Erasing a ram disk – Apple PowerBook (Duo 270C) User Manual

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5. Choose Restart from the Special menu.

A RAM disk icon appears on the desktop when the computer
restarts.

6. Drag the items you want to the RAM disk icon.

Erasing a RAM disk

There are two ways to erase the contents of a RAM disk. They do
not remove the RAM disk itself or make more memory available
for opening programs.

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Select the RAM disk icon and choose Erase Disk from
the Special menu.

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Drag everything on the RAM disk to the Trash and
choose Empty Trash from the Special menu.

Resizing or removing a RAM disk

1. Copy any programs or documents that you want to save

onto the internal hard disk or a floppy disk.

If you want to resize a RAM disk, you need to remove its
contents and then restore them.

2. Drag everything in the RAM disk to the Trash.

3. Choose Empty Trash from the Special menu.

4. Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu.

5. Open the Memory control panel.

6. Drag the slider to choose the percentage of available

memory you want to use for your RAM disk.

Drag the slider to 0% if you want to remove the RAM disk.

7. Choose Restart from the Special menu.

If you resized your RAM disk, a new RAM disk icon appears on
the desktop when the computer restarts. If you removed your
RAM disk, no icon appears.

8. If you resized the RAM disk, copy any items you want

back to it.

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