Creating page file on external USB 2.0 hard drive

[Roberto Icaza]

Hello,
I have an external hard drive connected to my USB 2.0 port, and wanted to create a page file on it since that hard drive is way faster than the internal one. I properly configure the right settings on the System control panel and prompts me to reboot. After I do so, there is no "pagefile.sys" on the external hard drive root directory, and the System control panel only reports the total megabytes used in page files excluding the one on the external hard drive. I am guessing this is so because it is a "removable" drive or because the system can't create a pagefile on it at boot-up since it hasn't loaded the USB 2.0 drivers yet. Whichever the reason, does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks a lot,
Roberto

[Yves Leclerc]

I think the XP page file must be on the XP boot drive in order for it to work correctly. As you said, the USB 2 drivers are not loaded when the boot-up wants the page file.

Yves
"Roberto Icaza" > wrote in message ...
Hello,
I have an external hard drive connected to my USB 2.0 port, and wanted to create a page file on it since that hard drive is way faster than the internal one. I properly configure the right settings on the System control panel and prompts me to reboot. After I do so, there is no "pagefile.sys" on the external hard drive root directory, and the System control panel only reports the total megabytes used in page files excluding the one on the external hard drive. I am guessing this is so because it is a "removable" drive or because the system can't create a pagefile on it at boot-up since it hasn't loaded the USB 2.0 drivers yet. Whichever the reason, does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks a lot,
Roberto

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Roberto Icaza" > wrote in message
...
Hello,
I have an external hard drive connected to my USB 2.0 port, and
wanted to create a page file on it since that hard drive is way
faster than the internal one. I properly configure the right
settings on the System control panel and prompts me to reboot.
After I do so, there is no "pagefile.sys" on the external hard drive
root directory, and the System control panel only reports the total
megabytes used in page files excluding the one on the external hard
drive. I am guessing this is so because it is a "removable" drive
or because the system can't create a pagefile on it at boot-up since
it hasn't loaded the USB 2.0 drivers yet. Whichever the reason,
does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks a lot,
Roberto

Page files cannot be created on a removable drive. There is no
guarantee that the drive will be present when booting.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Peter R. Fletcher]

No! The page file can be on any partition (or combination of
partitions) on any normal (IDE or SCSI) normal drive on the system.
Indeed, there are some theoretical advantages of having it on a
different physical drive than the system partition. I am not
absolutely certain about the status of removable drives (which would
include USB drives), but I believe that the page file cannot be kept
on these - I would certainly be surprised if you didn't have to have
at least some "fixed" space assigned to it.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:59:14 -0400, "Yves Leclerc"
> wrote:

>I think the XP page file must be on the XP boot drive in order for it to work correctly. As you said, the USB 2 drivers are not loaded when the boot-up wants the page file.
>
>Yves
> "Roberto Icaza" > wrote in message ...
> Hello,
> I have an external hard drive connected to my USB 2.0 port, and wanted to create a page file on it since that hard drive is way faster than the internal one. I properly configure the right settings on the System control panel and prompts me to rebo
ot. After I do so, there is no "pagefile.sys" on the external hard drive root directory, and the System control panel only reports the total megabytes used in page files excluding the one on the external hard drive. I am guessing this is so because it is
a "removable" drive or because the system can't create a pagefile on it at boot-up since it hasn't loaded the USB 2.0 drivers yet. Whichever the reason, does anybody know how to do this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Roberto



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