Re: Moving Paging file?
- From: "VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:42:18 -0600
"David" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:iqhtl393ivq2md411ooisb58s0c8tj303d@xxxxxxxxxx
I have a PC running XP. I have 1 Gig of RAM.
The PC has a floppy (A:) drive, a hard drive (C:), a CD/DVD drive (D:)
and I have plugged a buffalo 2 Gig drive in to a USB port
which is listed in 'My computer' as drive E:
I want to have my paging file on E: and not C: but despite doing as
required, the paging file remains on my hard disk C: and not on the
USB drive. I have followed the instructions given on
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307886 which are:
My computer
Properties
Advanced
Performance - Settings
Advanced
Virtual Memory - Change
C: is empty as I clicked 'No paging file' and 'Set'
I have clicked 'System managed size' for E: (and also tried variations
of this i.e., custom size (complying with the 'recommended size'
shown below)).
I then click yes when required and restart the PC.
When it restarts, the paging file is still on the C: drive (1,572,280
KB), and there is nothing on the E: drive. Attempts to move the
paging file to E:, or delete it, are unsuccessful as a message comes
up saying it is being used.
Articles about this subject say a paging file can be moved to another
drive, so I cannot seee what I am doing wrong.
Is the problem because the 'other drive' is a portable plugged into
a USB port? Does the non-C: drive used for the paging filoe have to
be internal;? Or?
Can anyone help please? Thanks
David
Your USB drive is a removable device. It can't be use for paging.
Install another hard disk that uses an onboard or daughtercard controller. You can configure Windows to use paging files on multiple disks. Don't eliminate the pagefile in the OS partition. Just add more space on another partition (on a different disk). You can reduce the size of the pagefile in the OS partition but don't delete it. Windows will give preferential use to the pagefile that is on a different disk than where the OS partition resides. This allows the OS to concurrently use its own system files while also using the pagefile on the other disk.
Make the max and min size for the pagefile the same. This will reduce fragmentation of the pagefile over time. I set the min and max to the same and then delete the old pagefile (by booting into Recovery Console mode), and reboot into Windows.
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm
With 1GB of physical RAM that you have, set a pagefile on C: to 1024MB and another pagefile on D: (on a different disk) to 1024MB. Each is set to the minimum of the physical RAM size, min = max to reduce fragmentation, and the pagefile on D: gets used first to allow concurrent read operations between the hard disks for system and paging files, and if the 2nd hard disk dies then the pagefile is still set correctly on the first disk.
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