Controling page file location during installation

[Scott R Smith]

Hi Group,

I have gone through the expence of purching hard drives and a controled, so
that I can put my page file on a seperate drive.

On my existing installation, when I moved my page file to my D: drive, the
pagefile.sys still remained on my C: drive taking up a hugh ammount of
space.

I need to do a clean install of XP x64, and my question is, is there any
way disignate a differant drive other the C: during the install process for
the page file to reside?

Thanks in advance,

Scott Smith

 

[Allan]

Re: Controling page file location during installation


"Scott R Smith" <scottraysmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Group,
>
> I have gone through the expence of purching hard drives and a controled,
> so that I can put my page file on a seperate drive.
>
> On my existing installation, when I moved my page file to my D: drive, the
> pagefile.sys still remained on my C: drive taking up a hugh ammount of
> space.
>
> I need to do a clean install of XP x64, and my question is, is there any
> way disignate a differant drive other the C: during the install process
> for the page file to reside?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott Smith
>
Even if you allocate a primary page file on the second drive "d:" you still
need a small page file on "c:". This allows you to write a memory dump in
case of a BSOD crash. You need to adjust the page file on "c:" to be smaller
than your installed memory unless you want a full memory dump, in which case
make it equal to installed memory plus a few extra MB. If you configure it
during installation it does not matter, it cannot always be changed
afterwards.

 

[Allan]

Re: Controling page file location during installation


"Scott R Smith" <scottraysmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OMyUyc$6HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Group,
>
> I have gone through the expence of purching hard drives and a controled,
> so that I can put my page file on a seperate drive.
>
> On my existing installation, when I moved my page file to my D: drive, the
> pagefile.sys still remained on my C: drive taking up a hugh ammount of
> space.
>
> I need to do a clean install of XP x64, and my question is, is there any
> way disignate a differant drive other the C: during the install process
> for the page file to reside?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott Smith
>
All you need to do during installation is to allocate a dedicated
partitition (fat32) of at least 2-4 times your installed memory in size at
the beginning of your second "d:" drive. For example, if you have one
gigabyte of memory installed create a partition of four gigabytes. This will
reduce fragmentation of your pagefile after it is allocated.
If you don't allocate a dedicated partition your pagefile will still work
but may be fragmented.

 

[Tony Sperling]

Re: Controling page file location during installation

How small is your C: drive? Is it less than 4GB?

No, I don't know of any way to make that kind of choices during install. And
you don't really need to - just make the configuration when youre up and
running. When you're done, you can shrink whats left on the system drive.
When you set the sizes, the best thing you can ever do is to set the
min-size the same as the max-size. This will prevent the page file ever to
re-size and you will never know it's doing anything.


Tony. . .


"Scott R Smith" <scottraysmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OMyUyc$6HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Group,
>
> I have gone through the expence of purching hard drives and a controled,
so
> that I can put my page file on a seperate drive.
>
> On my existing installation, when I moved my page file to my D: drive, the
> pagefile.sys still remained on my C: drive taking up a hugh ammount of
> space.
>
> I need to do a clean install of XP x64, and my question is, is there any
> way disignate a differant drive other the C: during the install process
for
> the page file to reside?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott Smith
>
>

 

[Tony Sperling]

Re: Controling page file location during installation

I agree with most of this, but page-file fragmentation is a myth. There is
nothing in the system that cares if the page file is fragmented or not. This
is an internal tool for the system - it is constantly overwriting the oldest
information with the newest. If it needs to look up a piece that is gone, it
knows where to get it.

If you want to have smooth operation here, get rid of page file re-sizing.


Tony. . .


"Allan" <mu8ja0i@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Scott R Smith" <scottraysmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OMyUyc$6HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Group,
> >
> > I have gone through the expence of purching hard drives and a controled,
> > so that I can put my page file on a seperate drive.
> >
> > On my existing installation, when I moved my page file to my D: drive,
the
> > pagefile.sys still remained on my C: drive taking up a hugh ammount of
> > space.
> >
> > I need to do a clean install of XP x64, and my question is, is there any
> > way disignate a differant drive other the C: during the install process
> > for the page file to reside?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Scott Smith
> >
> All you need to do during installation is to allocate a dedicated
> partitition (fat32) of at least 2-4 times your installed memory in size at
> the beginning of your second "d:" drive. For example, if you have one
> gigabyte of memory installed create a partition of four gigabytes. This
will
> reduce fragmentation of your pagefile after it is allocated.
> If you don't allocate a dedicated partition your pagefile will still work
> but may be fragmented.
>