Pagefile.sys, moving

[William Oertell]

Does anyone know of any method of getting pagefile.sys to the front of
the drive? The only defragmenter I know of that can move specified files to
the front of a disk is Norton's SpeedDisk, but to get that you've got to
purchase the rest of Norton's Utilities, which I don't need or want. I
don't even want Norton Utilities installed on my hard drive. I've tried
PerfectDisk, DiskKeeper, and Vopt, but none of those allow one to place
pagefile.sys at the front of the drive, except for PerfectDisk, which claims
that it will order files in the same order they appear in layout.ini. I
tried putting C:\pagefile.sys as the first entry in layout.ini, but that had
no effect.
I want pagefile.sys in the front of the disk so that it won't split the
difference between old and new files. I have both swapfiles set to the same
minimum and maximum size (4092) on both drives, so they don't change size.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

 

[Gerry]

William

If you have free disk space less than 60% of the operating system
partition
it becomes difficult to achieve a contiguous pagefile. If you have less
than 40% used disk space you can get a contiguous pagefile by setting a
zero pagefile, running Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter, restarting
the computer and setting the minimum pagefile size to what you would
want as a maximum. This does, however, place the pagefile in the middle
of the partitition and not the beginning. This doesn't work where you
have
more than about 40% used disk space (excluding the pagefile) as the
process of restarting the computer moves system files into the area you
want the pagefile, before the pagefile takes possession.

Another way is to achieve a contiguous file is to place the pagefile in
it's
own partition. However, you need a third party partitioning tool to
create
the partition i.e. BootIt NG or the like. You can try BootIt on a 30 day
trial but if you partition drives it is best to have permanent access to
such a
tool as you usually need to adjust partition sizes from time to time as
needs
change.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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