Re: Moving Paging file?

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That's the reason the paging file isn't relocated, true. But, as Ken said,
you don't want it there. Reason: the USB2 bus can't move data as fast as an
onboard ide or SATA hard drive.

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Dave
"JS" <@> wrote in message news:e0RNwwBPIHA.4752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just a guess but your USB drivers most likely being loaded to late in the
boot cycle for Windows to see the E: drive and therefore creates the
pagefile on C: when the specified location (E:) is not available.

JS

"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






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