Partition for Paging File

[Ross Payne]

I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I read
somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file to
make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,


Ross Payne

[Patrick Wong]

Have a spare system file ready and change the paging files in the system
properties

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> I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I read
> somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file to
> make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,
>
>
> Ross Payne
>
>

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

"Ross Payne" > wrote in message
...
> I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I read
> somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file to
> make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,
>

Ross,

It is not a good idea.
Unless you can put the pagefile on a separate physical disk you will not see
any performance improvements at all in having it in a separate partition on
the same disk as other things.

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"Ross Payne" > wrote in message
...
> I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I read
> somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file to
> make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,
>
>
> Ross Payne
>
>

[Lil' Dave]

XP will always keep a good portion of the paging file in the same partition
as windows. If insistent, the smartest way is to devote a partition at the
beginning of second hard drive for that purpose.
Win9X/NT puts the entire paging file / swap file in the partition you want,
or by default, in the same partition as windows.
Dave
"Ross Payne" > wrote in message
...
> I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I read
> somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file to
> make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,
>
>
> Ross Payne
>
>

[Lil' Dave]

If you have only one physical hard drive, and you're running XP from it.
The hard drive has at least one partition.
Dave
"Lil' Dave" > wrote in message
news:ikDmb.101761$AH4.56209@lakeread06...
> XP will always keep a good portion of the paging file in the same
partition
> as windows. If insistent, the smartest way is to devote a partition at
the
> beginning of second hard drive for that purpose.
> Win9X/NT puts the entire paging file / swap file in the partition you
want,
> or by default, in the same partition as windows.
> Dave
> "Ross Payne" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I starting using WinXP a few days ago. My drive is not partitioned. I
read
> > somewhere that it's a good idea to have a partition for the paging file
to
> > make it faster and less fragmented. How do I do this? Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Ross Payne
> >
> >
>
>