Performance across partitions - Win XP
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Performance across partitions - Win XP
I have a crappy lappy from work where everything is crammed onto the C: drive and the D: drive is pretty much empty.
Will moving my pagefile.sys (1.5gb) to my D: significantly impact performance. It is on the same physical disk but clearly in a different partition.
Same question goes to having my outlook mail file on D: with the app on C:
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Will moving my pagefile.sys (1.5gb) to my D: significantly impact performance. It is on the same physical disk but clearly in a different partition.
Same question goes to having my outlook mail file on D: with the app on C:
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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its fairly normal practice to isolate the pagefile on a separate dedicated partition. This ensures it's not exposed to fragmentation, which it would do, if it were on the heavily accessed c: drive.
Personally I do this:
c: for the OS
d: for the pagefile
e: for programs and documents
Personally I do this:
c: for the OS
d: for the pagefile
e: for programs and documents
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The main reason for moving is that C: keeps running out of space.
So all good :-)
So my next question is that having now set my pagefile.sys to be on D: how do I get rid of the old pagefile.sys that is now hogging 1.5gb on my C
I have searched in Google and it tells me how to create the new one - not how to get rid of the old one!
So all good :-)
So my next question is that having now set my pagefile.sys to be on D: how do I get rid of the old pagefile.sys that is now hogging 1.5gb on my C
I have searched in Google and it tells me how to create the new one - not how to get rid of the old one!
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Assuming Windows is XP , goto the control panel > system > advanced > performance settings > advanced > change and uncheck the pagefile on c: drive, then reboot.
Probably worth doing a defrag on C after removing that big ugly pagefile from it.
Probably worth doing a defrag on C after removing that big ugly pagefile from it.
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