Moving Paging File to another Partition

the pagefile in use should change size over time, but i'd be leary of removing the other with that explination. I believe theres a key in windows registry that purges the curent page file and starts a new one upon reboot, i thought it would be mentioned in that tutorial, but, that might prove helpful in the future.


glad to contribute,
mike

did you try to delete extra page file? if the file is in use (active page file), it won't let you delete it, if it's not in use then it's all garbage and you should be able to delete it after going thru permission hoops. I did this (move page file to another hard drive) under xp and don't remember exactly now, but I think I needed to remove it manually.

Pete4 said:

did you try to delete extra page file? if the file is in use (active page file), it won't let you delete it, if it's not in use then it's all garbage and you should be able to delete it after going thru permission hoops. I did this (move page file to another hard drive) under xp and don't remember exactly now, but I think I needed to remove it manually.

hey Pete,
I'd be careful using the ability to delete one of the pagefiles as a "test" of sorts. The second copy may be active too?! True it should restrict th deletion of an active pagefile, but it may the inactive one may also be unable to be deleted due to its protected status. I would think if the process would remove the restrictions, it would simply remove the file at the same time. Seems reasonable enough, right? As i mentioned, the pagefiles could simple be observed at say 3 point of time maybe 5-10 min apart and surely one will be dynamically resizing (if not stress the system memory with a handful of open browsers or photoshop sized apps)

Mike

thats basically what I'm implying.... the second pagefile has the however unlikely potential, to be "open" for read/write ops thinking it is the real page file, although windows is merely interacting with the true file, whatever method it uses to keep track of the location(s) of page file(s) may flag it as such. making it tricky, like in the game "operation" only instead of a red nose bulb and buzzer, it is hooked up to who knows what virtual memory management services/processes. So I'd do all I could to maybe even "trick" windows into deleting it (maybe switch it to the second drive, reboot, then put it back on the first, and reboot) - type of trick, just realize it's possibly fire your messin' with!


EDIT: and can a protected file be taken ownership of? assuming it still holds this status.

the reg key I was referring to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown = 1

will purge the pagefile during reboot

zero is the default state ( i believe it resets itself after the purge, but might want to double check it is set back to 0 )


Mike

I decided to re-start this attempt from a position which existed before my efforts described in this thread,

I achieved this by using a previously created Restore Point of my C Primary Partition to return to a previous state of the PC.

The PC has 2 hard drives DISK0 and DISK1

DISK1
This is partitioned into 2 Volumes:- C: Boot (Primary) & G: a Logical Drive

DISK0
This is partitioned into 2 Volumes , both Primary Partitions D: & F:

I now notice that there is a Page File in both the C: drive and also in the D: Drive.
This was something I did not notice before.

What I want to do is remove the page file from the C: Drive in order to keep any Image File created of this drive as small as possible.

Is this a possibility considering that there exists 2 page files ?

alright, so 1 system partition? multi win partitions, mixed OS's.

If, as I had previously believed, C: is sys/boot part. : windows 7 (sole OS). and D: is going to be page file space to roam, then you have 2 active pagefileS for the C: win7 sys and you just need to remove the original C: default location pagefile.sys file leaving ONE pagefile on D:

am I understanding in any capacity ?


mike

......yes...no...maybe so
because I can easily spew forth an answer.......