That said, even having all of Skyrim on a ramdisk doenst makes that much of a difference for me (tested from a RAID 0 of F3s though, 2x500Gb).
Now, hardlinks are more magical but NTFS doesnt allows hardlinks between different partitions so no use for them here : ( If you delete the original file, or more precisely, the file that the softliink its pointing at, the link becomes useless. If you delete the softlink, its just like deleting a shortcut, nothing happens to the original file.
The link will act just like the file for the game, everytime that the game wants to access Skyrim - Textures.bsa, the link will redirect it to the ramdisk so it will load stuff from there. Code: mklink 'C:\steam yada yadda\The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim\Data\Skyrim - Textures.bsa' 'J:\Skyrim - Textures.bsa'That command would make a link in the originals skyrim data folder, named exactly like the original file that you want to load from the ramdisk, that points to the actual file located in the ramdisk.
