Moving PageFile

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Buffalo

If I move my pagefile on my dual boot ,win98se-win200pro, to a different
partition on the same drive to save drive space on the Win2000pro partition,
will it slow things down or speed things up.
My 120GB HDD is divided into 8 partitions.
Only the I partition (Win2000Pro) is in NTFS format. The other 7 are in
Fat32.
Is it OK to move the Win2000Pro Page File to a different partiton that is
Fat32?
Any comments?
Thanks,
Buffalo
 
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Dave Patrick

You probably won't notice a difference. Make sure the system account (NT
Authority) has Full Control permissions for the drive.


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B

Buffalo

Dave said:
You probably won't notice a difference. Make sure the system account
(NT Authority) has Full Control permissions for the drive.
Thanks for the info.
I was just running a little low on free space on my Win2000Pro partition.
Buffalo
 
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Buffalo

Zootal said:
Most of my partitions are fat32. A few are ntfs. The page file
doesn't care, and I've never noticed a performance difference.

In theory, you should put the page file on a partition closest to the
partion that will receive the most file i/o, or just closest to the
system partition. In the real world, you will probalby never notice
the difference. If your page file is getting hammered, your
performance is going to drag no matter how efficient it is.

Thanks for your response.
My pagefile isn't used very much at all.
I think my max pagefile use is around 250MB and I usually have around 500MB
of free physical ram.
Buffalo
 

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