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Windows doesn't use page file on different drive
I recently bought an SSD and told Windows to use it for storing the page file on. I disabled the page file on my C:, but I would get an error message each time I started the PC that the pagefile size for C: was wrong (or something to that effect).
So I added a 512MB page file to the C: This got rid of the error on start up.
However, I was doing some memory intensive work today, and Windows popped up an error dialog saying that I was out of memory.
When I check the settings, it seems that Windows is refusing to use the SSD for paging now that a pagefile exists on the C:. It says the total paging file size for all drives is 512MB, i.e. what I set for the C:. I set the SSD to system managed. When I check the SSD, there is no pagefile.sys on there either. (There was when I had no page file set for C:).
I gather that Windows requires some pagefile on C: for memory dumps. But how can I get it to use a pagefile on a different disk as well?