How to move paging file to another physical hdd in Win7

I always move my PF and never leave one on the boot drive because I have never seen where it makes a difference. Try it both ways if you want and see what works best for you and your hardware. No harm done.

I am aware of that i probably lower performance by moving page file from faster system drive to slower!

Not necessarily. With 4Gb of RAM installed, Windows and your CPU have lots of space work in and keep in system RAM most of the data it needs. While it will still use the page file, it will not be for the most critically needed data. Also, a hard drive can only do things one at a time. So when your system needs data off the system drive, it cannot use the PF at the same time. But if the PF is on a 2nd drive, it can access both at once.

You should not disable Paging altogether. As for size of a static PF, 1.5 x RAM is a normal rule of thumb, but I think that is outdated, good when people had 128 or 256Mb of RAM installed, not 4Gb. So keeping an eye on the Performance Tab in Task Manager can show you how much you really need. That said, Windows really is pretty good at managing the PF, and Win7 is even better. Unless you are desperately low on free disk space, I would just let Windows manage it - it knows what it's doing.

Here's how I do it.

1. Clean the clutter off drive 2. Use CCleaner or Windows own Disk Cleanup.
2. Defrag drive 2.
3. Create new PF, delete old PF
4. Reboot.

Hi there
I'd move the SYSTEM first and then put the paging file on the FAST DISK.

You can actually have the system disk on the slowest drive because once core components of the OS have been loaded at boot very little needs to be loaded up from the system -- common components if they aren't already in memory will have already been loaded on to the paging disk anyway.

It's a MISCONCEPTION to assume that the OS itself should be on the fastest disk -- the only advantage might be a slightly faster boot time and initial load of some applications such as photoshop - but the slight disadvantage you gain will be MORE than offset by the faster I/O you have available for paging and application Scratch files -- Photoshop will works streets better if you can allocate one of its scratch areas on to the fast disk as well.


90% of POOR computer performance is due to horrible I/O configurations.

Move the system file via Acronis etc.

Then just allocate space for your paging file via Contol Panel ==> system===> advanced system settings .

Cheers
jimbo

I'd move the SYSTEM first and then put the paging file on the FAST DISK.

I am not arguing that this would likely result in better performance, but moving the OS to another disk is no simple task, and comes with many potential risks. This should only be done after considerable homework, and a verified backup.

here is what I have done I have two 36 gig 10,000 RPM Raptors on disk one sits the OS and on disk two I created two partitions the first one a four gig partition for the swap files and the rest of the space in partition two is for backup storage in performance benchmarks I get better disk performance with the page file setup this way

computersplus said:

here is what I have done I have two 36 gig 10,000 RPM Raptors on disk one sits the OS and on disk two I created two partitions the first one a four gig partition for the swap files and the rest of the space in partition two is for backup storage in performance benchmarks I get better disk performance with the page file setup this way

that is not a bad idea :)

For all:
ok thanks for your answers!!!

remember the outer tracks of a drive are able to be accessed faster so that works the best for swap

computersplus said:

remember the outer tracks of a drive are able to be accessed faster so that works the best for swap

so when i will be creating partitions on my drive first partition that i create must be swap partition in order to resize on outer tracks? and second for data? thanks

if your gonna do it on your OS drive you have to assign a different drive letter than C for your swap Like "S" for swap or "P" for page file lol....