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