Moving pagefile

This is a discussion about Moving pagefile in the Customization Tweaking category; I'm trying to move the pagefile to one of my other partitions but W2K Pro refuses to recognise there's a pagefile after moving. My setup as follow:- C - Disk 1 - Primary Partition - Win98 - 2GB - FAT32 D - Disk 1 - Logical Partition - W2K - 18GB - FAT32 E - Disk 2 - Logical Partition - 19GB - FAT32 F - Disk 2 - Log ...

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I'm trying to move the pagefile to one of my other partitions but W2K Pro refuses to recognise there's a pagefile after moving.
 
My setup as follow:-
 
C - Disk 1 - Primary Partition - Win98 - 2GB - FAT32
D - Disk 1 - Logical Partition - W2K - 18GB - FAT32
 
E - Disk 2 - Logical Partition - 19GB - FAT32
F - Disk 2 - Logical Partition - 1GB - NTFS
 
I'm trying to move it to F: which it accepts, but on re-booting I get a message saying no pagefile, setting a temporary one. When I go into the settings, the size settings are still there for F: drive, and there is a pagefile.sys on the F: drive, but it won't use it.
 
I've shifted it to E: drive and that works o.k. but I like to have all temporary file in their own partition, so how can I get W2K to recognise the F: drive setting?

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I wouldn't recommend move your pagefile to another partition. That will just slow down disc access speed.

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Different school of thought to mine - I've always gone by having the swap file on a separate disk (not as in partition, but physical) and where possible on a separate channel if using IDE, theory being if I'm loading an app and the swap file is needed then instead of one drive doing all the read/write on it's own, 2 share the load.
 
Anyway, figured out the problem. My system didn't have access rights to the F: drive, added a permission for the system and bingo, it worked.

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C - Disk 1 - Primary Partition - Win98 - 2GB - FAT32
D - Disk 1 - Logical Partition - W2K - 18GB - FAT32
 
E - Disk 2 - Logical Partition - 19GB - FAT32
F - Disk 2 - Logical Partition - 1GB - NTFS
 
 
I saw that and assumed that you had 1 HD partitioned into 4 partitions. So I guess you have 1 HD and another HD with no primary and just an extended. That's the way to do it. I was just stating that having the pagefile on the SAME HD but on another partition on the same HD would slow down disk speed.

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and I'm blind too. Never saw the Disk 1 and Disk2.