Changing the Paging File default drive

[Guest]

I have 2 HDDs - one is drive C & D and the other is E.
Drives C & D have a capacity of 15 Gig, E has 60 Gig.
I keep running out of space on C drive, when I want, for example, to
download a large file. I thought I had fixed that problem awhile back - what
I did was go to Performance Options in System properties and assign to C
drive a Paging File size of zero, the same thing for D drive, and assigned
2-718 megs for E drive. I thought that this would force the system (XP SP2)
to use E drive for file paging. But, I still run out of sufficent space on C
drive instead.
Anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Or is C drive automatically used no
matter what?
Cheers

 

[Jerry]

You should set the Paging file to "No paging file" - not zero for C: and D:
and then push the Set button. (Setting it to zero is not the same as no
paging file.)

The default location is the same drive/partition Windows is on - you get
better performance by having it on a separate drive from the one that has
Windows.

Why two 15Gb partitions? What drive is Windows on?

 

[Guest]

Jerry:

Thanks - sorry, I didnt make myself clear.
I have 2 physical drives - one, partitioned as C and D, has a total capacity
of 15 Gig (its the original HD). The new drive has 60 Gig.

And I actually did set C and D to "No Paging File", not zero as I may have
indicated. So, what I want the system to do is use E drive (60 Gig HD) to do
file paging, but it seems to be using C.

Suggestions?

 

[Ulf]

why not download large files to e:\ instead? I think your page file
must be on your master hdd (not sure though) and I also think having
the page file on the master hdd definitelly will speed up your system -
or perhaps rather having it on your slave hdd will slow down your
system...15 GB is not that much space for a system running xp sp2 - why
not buy a bigger hdd? you need to have at least 15% free on your c:\
and d:\ to be able to do a defragmentation occasionally (forcing a
defragmentation on a disk with less than 15% of free space could in the
worst case scenario destroy the partition table - believe me, it
happned to me once during a forced defragmentation). alternativelly,
format both of your drives and reinstall xp on the bigger drive set as
master.
cheers

 

[Jerry]

Rt-click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance > Advanced >
Virtual Mamory > Change and highlight the drive you want to use for the
Paging File > select Custom Size and fill in the boxes then push Set then OK
and ok. Reboot is required.