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Move paging file

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by therook

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How do i setup a paging file on a seperate partition on my hard drive. I am getting virtual memory errors, and my hard drive is not showing any free space.

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by lumberjack

Right click "My Computer" and select Properties
select the "Advanced" tab and then "Performance Options"

Under "Virtual Memory" select the "Change" button
Select the "D:" drive - or which ever you want the paging file moved to and put in the details as per the original settings. Press "Set"

select the C: drive and input settings of 0 and press set,
reboot the PC

You may also need to reboot between setting up the D: partition pagefile and removing the C: drive one

by cactus pete

I wouldn't recommend removing the paging file from the C drive completely. What I do is limit that to RAM + 11. A 512 MB RAM box would get a 523 MB page file on C.

However, I would use the above mentioned method to add additional space on a separate disk. [A separate disk is more efficient than just a different partition on the same disk.]

The reasoning for this is that if there were some other problem with booting later on, you might not be able to access the page file on the other drive, thereby potentially crippling your system when you attempt to boot again.

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