Re: Page File on 2nd drive?
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:52:25 +1100
Your paging file is probably less than 1 GByte. According
to your first post, your wife has used some 34 GBytes of
drive C:. Assuming that Windows takes 5 GBytes, this
leaves some 29 GBytes of data files. That's much, much
more than what is used by the paging file!
"Elmo Watson" <sputnik75043@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23MOFacbJGHA.1192@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've already moved all 7gb of My Documents over to the new drive. I'm sure
> there are some other places, but that will take some time to find...
> The Page file is so big - I thought that it would at least, free up a lot
of
> space....
>
> If it won't impact the system speed, I guess my next question is to find
out
> how to move the Page file to a different drive...
>
> anyone?
>
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uUWX0iVJGHA.3896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "Elmo Watson" <sputnik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:uW9c9UVJGHA.1676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> My wife's Win2k computer had a 40gb hard drive, with only 6.5gb left of
> > free
> >> space. There was so little space left, it was hard to defragment.
> >>
> >> So I got a second drive (D:\) - I moved the files (7gb worth) of My
> >> Documents files to the D: drive.
> >>
> >> But then, I started wondering about also moving the page file there
> >> also - - - -
> >>
> >> Would moving the Page File over to the D drive help or hinder the speed
> >> of
> >> the system?
> >
> > It wouldn't make much of a difference. However, a more
> > logical division would be to move her data files to the new
> > disk. The first disk would then be used for Windows and
> > for her applications, the second for data. It makes backing
> > up things much, much easier!
> >
> >
>
>
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