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by vestal1

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My system is set up to dual boot. Win 98 or win2000 server (as I study and learn). After cloning my dual partition drive to another and coming up on it, 2000 srvr had to run through all the drives with a CHK. Well I noticed I lost about 2GB of drivespace on the win 98 partition. I found a 2.038 GB pagefile.sys on the win 98 (C:) partition. Whats up??? Is there a way to set the pagefile.sys on win 98? Is it even needed? If I get rid of it, will 2000 srvr. look for it. This one realy has got me!I would like the 2GB back on c: drive!

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by bohicam1

By default, win95/98 will use all available hard drive space for a page file. You can set this manually by going into control panel/system/performance and choose to set your own amount. Windows will bark at you saying it is not recommended but it issafe to do so. The general rule for winnt and win2k is ram plus 12MB for minimum setting and 2x ram plus 128 for the maximum amount. example...if you have 256 MB ram make minimum 268MB and maximum 640MB. If you have only a bare minimum (64-128) I would just double the page file size.
Good luck!

Mike

by vestal1

Thanks for the info. I knew how to change the 98 setting. But, it did not change that pagefile.sys. I noticed that ntldr was also put on the first partition. I moved the ntldr and pagefile.sys to another drive. 98 comes up with the 5MB I saw before. Where is 2K srvr getting this on to the first partition, when it runs the chkdsk?

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