Readyboost incompatible flash drives workaround

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Guys I recently purchased a 1 GB kingston flash drive which was shown incompatible in tests for readyboost.
However after some googling I was able to make it work

here is the way

Format the Drive with the following settings in place.

Capacity:
-of your drive-

File System:
NTFS

Allocation Unit Size:
4096

[x] Quick Format

Then goto the the General tab under the drives properties. And put a check by the following.

[x] Compress this drive to save disk space
[x] Index this drive for faster searching

test the device for ReadyBoost. Also make sure that you have the "Optimize for Performance" setting applied in the properties for the device under the Hardware tab.

Done

This guy here suggested this,many thanks to him

and dont use this if your have a snailspeed drive

,it may make windows slow.

hey vimal how much of boost did u vista readily give u

Not much-till now(as my flash memory is not that fast) but I can feel some improvement,will see in gaming.

let me know if its worth buying a new flash disk ... and wat do u mean by ur flash disk is not fast which spl. type of flash disk does readyboost want?

^^I did not buy a drive because of readyboost feature,I bought it just for storage,It is just an experiment I am doing.
however see this list for readyboost compatible drives
*www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/
And here are some gaming results for readyboost compatible drives.
*www.legitreviews.com/article/455/2/*www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/

vimal_mehrotra said:
Not much-till now(as my flash memory is not that fast) but I can feel some improvement,will see in gaming.

You will experience no difference in gaming, and as your flash mem is slow readyboost will have slight negative impact (Atleast this is what i experienced when i used i used my Transcend Jetflash 1 Gig flash mem).

Let me see for a few days.

in my flash drive there is no option for formatting the card in ntfs--only fat and fat32 option shows up