Page File Problem

Everything New Technology 1823 This topic was started by Vulcan, 2003-09-29 21:59

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2003-09-29 23:59

hey all...

i recently added more ram and now i have 512MB of ram.

i disabled the page file and everything was fine until one day i played a 3D game and there was a virtual memory problem..

i then turned the page file back on..BUT here comes my problem, i set it to 384-768MB on Drive E and a page file is initally created on Drive E ,
BUT on the next boot the page file is on Drive C and its size is 768MB..!!

how can i permanently set it on Drive E ???

(I DuaL Boot, and win xp is on drive E)

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sapiens74

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#115474

2003-09-30 00:35

Are all drives NTFS?

Vulcan

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#115475

2003-09-30 01:10

no...

all of the drives are FAT32.

Sampson

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#115476

2003-09-30 01:50

You might have to go into the registry to change it. Start Regedit and go to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\ControlSession Manager\Memory Management
Double-click PagingFiles. The entry will appear as C:\pagefile.sys 384 768 or something like that. Change the C to whatever drive. You will have to reboot. See if that will help.

sapiens74

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#115477

2003-09-30 02:19

Are you sure your other Os isn't setting it?

Vulcan

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#115478

2003-09-30 09:18

my other os is win me...

pagefile.sys is created by a NT based system..

win 9x/me use a win386.swp file...

sampson...i try it and let you know...

Vulcan

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#115479

2003-09-30 09:22

sampson....!! i open regedit....and guess what ..it is already set as
" E:\pagefile.sys 384 768 "...

i don't know what's going on...

Sampson

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#115480

2003-09-30 15:54

Make sure that you log in with Administrative privileges. Delete the pagefile.sys from C:\. It should squak but go ahead. Since you are dual booting, you can get ME or 98 to use the pagefile.sys by going into the system.ini and editing the line:
PagingFile=e:\pagefile.sys
PagingDrive=e:
See if that doesn't help.

ghayes

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#115481

2003-10-01 00:16

Verify who has what permissions to access the pagefile. Does System have access?

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage

Vulcan

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#115482

2003-10-01 00:42

i log in as an admin (my account is set as admin).

i don't understand...what do you mean when
you ask "Does System have access?"..

the unwanted 768MB pagefile.sys on c:\ is in use and i can't delete it,
not from XP anyway..

acedriver

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#115483

2003-10-01 13:20

got the same problem as you, solved it already, what I did is, I set the pagefile at E: around 256 mb (depends on how much you wanna set it to)
and disable page pagefile on C: through System Properties

duhmez

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#115484

2003-10-01 21:35

All you gotta do is click on c: in swapfile section, and type in 0 for min and max, then apply. then click on e: and set how you wish, then aply. What you did was have pagefile on both disks. NT can do that, pagefile all over the plaCE.

Vulcan

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#115485

2003-10-03 03:16

setting the page file on drive E and setting pagefile of size 0 on drive C did fix the problem.

i hope it stays fixed.

thank's all.