Re: Pagefile.sys and Using a Separate Hard Drive

From: Rocket J. Squirrel (rocky_at_bullwinkle.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:58:40 -0400

To partition and format a hard disk, use the Windows XP setup program:

"How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348&Product=winxp

Rocky

"brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2d91601c46a67$a57c77b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Question for you please....the drive that is the 30GB
> drive was removed from an old system (with NTFS), when
> Windows XP loaded it, it only sees 2GB as being available
> on the disk, it has a Master Boot Record on it....I am
> using PArtition MAgic to delete the entire drive and then
> reformat the entire drive to make it 30GB, any ideas on
> how to do that because XP is only seeing 2GB of the
> drive. I looked up diskpart, but that looks scary.
>
> brad
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You're on the right track.
> >
> >"How to configure paging files for optimization and
> recovery in Windows XP"
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;314482&Product=winxp
> >
> >Rocky
> >
> >"Brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:2d01f01c469c5$55f9bb00$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I was wondering if I load Windows XP Pro on one hard-
> drive
> >> and then set-up the pagefile.sys to point to a different
> >> hard-drive, what kind of performance improvement or
> >> degradation will I find....ALSO, if my primary hard
> drive
> >> is 80GB (8MB cache) and my second drive is a 30GB hard
> >> drive, what should my pagefile.sys size be? Oops, my
> RAM
> >> is 1GB
> >>
> >> thanks for your help in advance.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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