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.

Trout :D

No adavantage, as long as the files on the partitions aren't fragmented (i.e run defrag) .

Although if C drive is full, you could have a bigger page file if wish.

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

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!

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.

Cool - I thought that putting one on D: would get rid of the one on C:.

All sorted now!

nice work trout - we're a friendly bunch on here and happy to help.

...except Iain Watkins





(just kidding Iain)

Thank you :D

Managed to go from 200mb free on C: to 4.8gb with a little bit of tidying up!