RAMdrive size

For the last two years we have run a 600Mb video clip out of a RAMdrive on a AMD 1GHz Athlon PC with 768Mb RAM. As part of servicing the PC was replaced with a AMD Athlon XP 2.5GHz PC with 1Gb RAM. The RAMdrive is set up OK but then won't load windows.

Is there any suggestions as possible solutions?
Is there a better way now of doing it, I need fast data transfer of a solid state device relatively cheaply?
I'm using "xmsdsk.exe" to create the RAMdrive is there another program which will do it?
Can I do it from windows?

 

Could this be the NDIS problem ?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];312108

http://www.pyramidcs.com/download/Patches/NDIS_Win98/

I don't think you can make ramdrive from inside win98 unless special program to do it. Needs to be loaded at boot. Also, as i recall: for more than .5 GB ram with Win98se you need to set parameter in system.ini

[vcache]
MinFileCache=262144

at least for 1 GB ram (1/4 of ram minimum, kick it up bigger if you want but keep powers (chunks of 64 MB) ... this is probably your problem).

Best