Page File Problem

[Vulcan 0]

hey all...

 

i recently added more ram and now i have 512MB of ram.

 

i disabled the page file and everything was fine until one day i played a 3D game and there was a virtual memory problem..

 

i then turned the page file back on..BUT here comes my problem, i set it to 384-768MB on Drive E and a page file is initally created on Drive E ,

BUT on the next boot the page file is on Drive C and its size is 768MB..!!

 

how can i permanently set it on Drive E ???

 

(I DuaL Boot, and win xp is on drive E)

[sapiens74 0]

Are all drives NTFS?

[Vulcan 0]

no...

 

all of the drives are FAT32.

[Sampson 0]

You might have to go into the registry to change it. Start Regedit and go to

HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\ControlSession Manager\Memory Management

Double-click PagingFiles. The entry will appear as C:\pagefile.sys 384 768 or something like that. Change the C to whatever drive. You will have to reboot. See if that will help.

[sapiens74 0]

Are you sure your other Os isn't setting it?

[Vulcan 0]

my other os is win me...

 

pagefile.sys is created by a NT based system..

 

win 9x/me use a win386.swp file...

 

sampson...i try it and let you know...

[Vulcan 0]

sampson....!! i open regedit....and guess what ..it is already set as

" E:\pagefile.sys 384 768 "...

 

 

i don't know what's going on...

[Sampson 0]

Make sure that you log in with Administrative privileges. Delete the pagefile.sys from C:\. It should squak but go ahead. Since you are dual booting, you can get ME or 98 to use the pagefile.sys by going into the system.ini and editing the line:

PagingFile=e:\pagefile.sys

PagingDrive=e:

See if that doesn't help.

[ghayes 0]

Verify who has what permissions to access the pagefile. Does System have access?

 

- Greg/Raxco Software

Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage

[Vulcan 0]

i log in as an admin (my account is set as admin).

 

i don't understand...what do you mean when

you ask "Does System have access?"..

 

the unwanted 768MB pagefile.sys on c:\ is in use and i can't delete it,

not from XP anyway..

[acedriver 0]

got the same problem as you, solved it already, what I did is, I set the pagefile at E: around 256 mb (depends on how much you wanna set it to)

and disable page pagefile on C: through System Properties

[duhmez 0]

All you gotta do is click on c: in swapfile section, and type in 0 for min and max, then apply. then click on e: and set how you wish, then aply. What you did was have pagefile on both disks. NT can do that, pagefile all over the plaCE.

[Vulcan 0]

setting the page file on drive E and setting pagefile of size 0 on drive C did fix the problem.

 

i hope it stays fixed.

 

thank's all.