PAge File problem

[ThC 129 0]

I have 2 hd's and would like to spread my page file over both drives it does this for a little while then eventually ends up forgetting about the file on the other drive. Is there a way to keep windows from doing that??

[FrogMaster 0]

W2K is on my C: drive and the paging file is on my faster E: drive and stays there.

For that you have to define only one page file on only one disk for your whole system. Remove any additional definitions of paging files on drives you do not want.

[tylau 0]

It is possible. Try making a SMALL strip set NTFS partition using two HDD, just enough size to hold the paging file of your desired size. Say if this is 300MB, then allocated 150MB each from the two HDD used to create the strip set. Then in W2K specify the min. and max size of paging file to be the size of that partition and then use it exclusively for the paging swap of W2K, in many cases you will be able to make use of both of the HDD, provided that you paging NTFS partition isnt set to too large a size.

[ThC 129 0]

Cool thanks i will try it

[JimmyK 0]

yeah but the only problem is you have to format both ur drives to make them dynamic so you can stripem.

[tylau 0]

relax chap, I finally deduced that if you are upgrading from NT4 or b4 then you are in luck, since W2K has no prerequisite on disk type when they are created in previous NTFS formats, ie, W2K can support stripe set created by NT4 or earlier versions, but not creating it. A bit awkward though.