Page file

[Annie R J Brion]

Can you have the page file on a disk partition that has no drive letter?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

As far as I am aware, the conditions for a drive/partition to have no letter
preclude putting anything there at all..

Can you have the page file on a disk partition that has no drive letter?

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[UnswoleLilDude]

It's not a good idea to move the paging file to a separate partition on the
same hard drive Windows is installed on. This will slow your computer down.

Learn more about the paging file in Windows Vista at the link below.

http://www.maximumpcguides.com/move-and-optimize-windows-vistas-paging-file/

 

[Annie R J Brion]

It's not a good idea to move the paging file to a separate partition on
the same hard drive Windows is installed on. This will slow your
computer down.

Learn more about the paging file in Windows Vista at the link below.

http://www.maximumpcguides.com/move-and-optimize-windows-vistas-paging-file/

The partition is the first on my second SATA. No one said I only had one
drive

 

[Richard Urban]

But you didn't say you have more than one drive either! A small point, but
important to your question.

A partition that has no drive designation can not be accessed by the
operating system, regardless where it is located.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Annie R J Brion]

But you didn't say you have more than one drive either! A small point,
but important to your question.

How was it important? It did not matter where the partition is as your
answer below shows.

A partition that has no drive designation can not be accessed by the
operating system, regardless where it is located.

Ta. I'll have to waste a letter then

 

[Annie R J Brion]

As far as I am aware, the conditions for a drive/partition to have no
letter preclude putting anything there at all..

Thanks.

 

[Richard Urban]

It is important in the fact that moving the pagefile to another partition on
a computer that has only one drive does absolutely nothing for you. If you
had stated that you had a second drive your responses may have been a bit
more informative.

Please state all facts up front to prevent people from having to pull teeth
to get information from you.

See here please:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Andrew McLaren]

As far as I am aware, the conditions for a drive/partition to have no
letter preclude putting anything there at all..

Not strictly true ... you can mount a formatted NTFS partition onto the
directory of another drive.

So for example: Disk 1 has one partiton, and is C: drive. Disk 2 has one
partition, and is mounted on C:\Users (or C:\MyData\Foobar\Baz, etc)
directory of Disk 1.

In Disk Manager, select the partition, and go to Change Drive Letter and
Paths, Change, Mount in the following empty NTFS Directory.

The second drive can now be accessed and used, without consuming a drive
letter.

Unfortunately this facility, although very cool, won't help Annie; because
the page file must go into the Root directory of the drive. That's the one
directory that you can't mount another drive on.

Anyways, apologies for being a pedantic git ... but hell, I just couldn't
resist

 

[Lang Murphy]

Anyways, apologies for being a pedantic git ... but hell, I just couldn't
resist

<snip>

Now... if we could only relieve ourselves of the numerous pedantic gits in
residence here... oh, what a wonderful world it would be...

Lang