Re: Setting up a partition for windows page file

One cannot designate the initial location of the Page File
during installation. You can do so afterward but you should
be aware that a Page File should not be relocated to a different
partition on the same drive....it should only be relocated to
a separate hard drive. Having a Page File relocated to a different
partition, on the same drive, will actually cause a performance
slowdown. Read the following article:

Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

[Courtesy of Alex Nichol, MS-MVP]


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Nicholas

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"Jonathan" <Jonathan.Black@onlinedatacorp.com> wrote in message:
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| I want to do a fresh instal, and set up a partition just
| for windows page file, I know how to create and format the
| partition, but how do I tell windows that I want the page
| file to utilize a specific partition?