Hard Disk Crash sets a permanent pagefile

[Alex Soteros]

January 30, 2003 my second hard drive crashed. When it did I was not able to
boot up because, I thought at the time, "my pagefile is on that disk".

After I removed that hard drive and sent it back to the manufacturer for
replacement under warranty, I fully expected to have to have to reassign my
pagefile manually; so I was pleasantly surprised when XP booted successfully
and gave me a sufficiently sized pagefile dated 2003-01-30.

Now I can't get rid of it. After I got the replacement Hard Disk and
implemented it I tried to reassign the pagefile to it. Not Possible! No
matter what I do - even setting the root disk to "No Paging file" or
specifying one that is only 2MB I still get that file dated 2003-01-30.

I note that other people on this newsgroup have some problems with their
pagefiles. Has a nice feature become a nightmare?


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[Ron Martell]

"Alex Soteros" > wrote:

>January 30, 2003 my second hard drive crashed. When it did I was not able to
>boot up because, I thought at the time, "my pagefile is on that disk".
>
>After I removed that hard drive and sent it back to the manufacturer for
>replacement under warranty, I fully expected to have to have to reassign my
>pagefile manually; so I was pleasantly surprised when XP booted successfully
>and gave me a sufficiently sized pagefile dated 2003-01-30.
>
>Now I can't get rid of it. After I got the replacement Hard Disk and
>implemented it I tried to reassign the pagefile to it. Not Possible! No
>matter what I do - even setting the root disk to "No Paging file" or
>specifying one that is only 2MB I still get that file dated 2003-01-30.
>
>I note that other people on this newsgroup have some problems with their
>pagefiles. Has a nice feature become a nightmare?
>

Try setting a page file on *both* hard drives, and specify a minimum
size of at least 100 mb for each.

Reboot the computer and make sure that there is a pagefile.sys
existing on each drive.

Then change the size of the page file on the boot drive to minimum 10
mb maximum 50 mb.

Reboot again and see if the specifications have been implemented.

Note that you must click on the SET button on the virtual memory page
before clicking on OK.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Alex Soteros]

"Ron Martell" > wrote in message
...
>
> Try setting a page file on *both* hard drives, and specify a minimum
> size of at least 100 mb for each.
>
> Reboot the computer and make sure that there is a pagefile.sys
> existing on each drive.
>
> Then change the size of the page file on the boot drive to minimum 10
> mb maximum 50 mb.
>
> Reboot again and see if the specifications have been implemented.
>
> Note that you must click on the SET button on the virtual memory page
> before clicking on OK.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

Been there; done that.

See my message to this group - Commit Charge Limited dated 2003/06/28 09:21