Readyboost - Can't remove cache from HardDiskVolume1

I hope someone can help because this is making me nuts.

I'm trying to use Readyboost on my computer with a 2gb flash card but it always says "another cache exists". I used resource monitor to find out where the readyboost cache was, and it's located on hard drive volume 1. I've looked everywhere to find out where it's located or how to remove it but cant find a solution anywhere.

I found something about an NVCACHE partition that should be deleted, but I guess that's a solution for XP not Vista because that parition is nowhere to be found in Vista.

Does ANYONE know of a way to remove the readyboost cache from harddiskvolume1 in Vista Ultimate?

Any help would be HUGELY appreciated!

Regards,
Preacher

 

Do you have Intel TurboMemory installed? Check your start menu for anything intel Robson or TurboMemory related. You might have ReadyBoost built into your computer already. Once you open up the application you can disable ReadyBoost there if you like.

As a sidenote, Turbomemory is much faster than pretty much any flash device (40MB/s read/write).

 

Ahh, I do. Thank you very much. So Both Readydrive and Readyboost are enabled in the Turbo Memory. So you're saying I'm better off having the Cache on the HDD than on the flashdrive because of Turbo Memory?

 

If you have turbo memory, and at least 2gigs of ram, readyboost is really not going to help your system in any noticeable way. You're better off without it I think.

 

It's not actually a hard drive, it's a chip inside your computer. It's split into two parts: Hybrid disk cache and ReadyBoost cache. It takes up no extra disk space or anything, and frees up a USB port. I'd keep your flash drive for other things, personally. But there's no harm in experimenting with a bigger cache!

EDIT: as MastahRiz said, there's almost no benefit to your system if you have 2GB of RAM. It won't hurt your system, though. And also, definitely keep the ReadyDrive (it's hybrid disk cache) on in the TurboMemory control panel. It helps the hard disk out a lot.