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    Turbo mem showing up in Win 7 Disk Management

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by nivla, Jan 8, 2010.

  1. nivla

    nivla Notebook Guru

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    I show a "Disk 0" in Windows 7 Disk Management. Is this the turbo memory? It's showing 1.37GB in size.

    The other partitions are on Disk 1 and they are 100MB and 596.07 GB - this is a 640GB drive.

    Thanks
     
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  2. joey-t

    joey-t Notebook Consultant

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    Don't think so. I think Turbo Memory shows in the Device Manager, under Disk Drive, as IMD-0.
     
    joey-t, Jan 8, 2010
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    spesler Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe you are both right...
     

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  4. joey-t

    joey-t Notebook Consultant

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    You are correct. Turbo Memory creates the IMD-0 in the Device Manager, and Disk Management with 1.37GB.

    When I previously responded to this thread, my Turbo Memory had somehow become corrupted/deleted from my system. I have no idea when or why. But the IMD-0 was missing from the Device Mgr and Disk Management. My previous response was based on memory. I just didn't know/remember Turbo Memory also showed up under Disk Management.

    Yesterday I downloaded the Turbo Memory driver from the Lenovo website and reinstalled.
    This fixed my Turbo Memory and it now appears once again in my Device Manager and Disk Management.

    http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67820#version
     
    joey-t, Jan 11, 2010
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    joey-t Notebook Consultant

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    One more thing to mention.

    Turbo Memory does speed up boot time.

    The green (caterpillar) scrolling boot-up logo repeats itself 9 times with Turbo Memory, and 14 times without Turbo Memory.

    For over a month I have been trying to figure out why my system was taking longer to boot up. I now know the reason was Turbo Memory was not working.
     
    joey-t, Jan 11, 2010
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  6. not.sure

    not.sure Notebook Evangelist

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    You mean it's actually doing something? Neat. I never heard of TM working with any OS..
     
    not.sure, Jan 11, 2010
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