If your computer can accomodate more than a single hard drive then you
can keep the original drive as master and make the new second drive a
slave. This avoids a clean install and collecting up all the drivers you
need. You can then create a dedicated partition at the beginning of the
second drive to hold your pagefile.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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marx404 wrote:
> Thanks Gerry, I have already long ago performed all that you
> mentioned, however I am replacing my HD this weekend as I have 30%
> free space currently. According to what you wrote, that is the key
> for a contiguous PF. Thanks so much.
>
>
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> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23LeyYA$tIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Does the partition have less than 60% free space? The pagefile is
>> placed in the middle of the partition. If the partition is over
>> about 40% full other data will already occupy where the system would
>> like to place the extra section of the pagefile. It cannot put it
>> there so it places it elsewhere. Result fragmentation.
>>
>> If the situation is marginal you could try running Disk CleanUp and
>> Disk Defragmenter before making the change. Better still cCleaner
>> but you still need Disk CleanUp to remove restore points.
>>
>> The default allocation to System Restore is 12% on your C partition
>> which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click
>> your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore.
>> Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find
>> the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit.
>> When you get to the
>> Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
>>
>> Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp
>> to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
>> select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
>> More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
>> Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.
>>
>> The System Restore changes may just enable you to get a contiguous
>> pagefile.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> marx404 wrote:
>>> I have an odd problem with my page file getting fragmented. I have
>>> XP Pro, SP2, 2.0G Pentium 4, and just upgraded from 1.25G to 1.5G
>>> of memory. I always adjust my page file to 1.5 x min 3 x max. I
>>> always keep my drive defragged and never had a problem. I also use
>>> Pagedefrag and have never seen my page file with more than 2
>>> fragments - ever. After adding in more RAM and adjusting my page
>>> file, I ran chkdsk and defrag, then checked Pagedefrag and saw my PF
>>> had 14 fragments!
>>> I tried deleting the PF, defragging the drive then recreating a new
>>> PF, 9 fragments! So I have temporarily resolved the problem by
>>> setting the PF static 1.5x min and 1.5x max.
>>>
>>> What could be causing my PF to fragment so? I don't do gaming on
>>> this PC and have scanned it for viruses and spyware, both of which
>>> came up clean.