You havent given any reason as to why one should only ever run one swap file and only ever on a C: drive.
I believe you simply advise it simply because its the default and microsoft knows best. I am interested to know what issues have been resolved by doing that as you stated that it has resolved 1000s of cases? that sounds very exaggerated. What are these cases?
Obviously if someone gives me advice on anything generally I expect there to be a reason backing it up if I question it. However even tho I did disable the 2nd swap file and it had zero affect on the problem you seem to have thrown a mardy and gone away so thanks for your time anyway.
The reason I cant access the hdd cables is due to case layout and yes my number of hdds. There is a fan in front of my bottom bay of hdds, the way they mount is the back of the hdds where cables plug in is next to a fan, it took several hours work to get those cables in without obstructing airflow and without hitting the spinning as its an incredibly tight fit, simply unplugging any of those cables upsets that likewise changing any of the hdd's or putting a new one in. This leaves the other ends of the cables on the motherboard, sadly that isnt too easy either, its a web of cables covering a very small area, unplugging all at once would first cause an issue of remembering to put them back in the right order of slots, and then the issue of very hard to access the slots without taking out my soundcard, probably also lifting my heavy case onto my bed so the board is facing up (got bad back so not viable) and removing the cables also risks upsetting their placement near the hdd's fan. Ideally I want to get a better designed case for large numers of hdds but I havent got round to that yet.
Clearly cloning isnt that simple due to the windows process of identifiying and lettering hdd's, for those with easy access to their cables and especially if they dont have many drives maybe it is but not for everyone.
Also for all the guides I have read (and there isnt that many good ones and they not consistent with each other) on cloning you are the first to say all hdd's should be unplugged, whilst I agree now knowing how windows gets confused that is the best thing, any guides I have read have only stated to remove the original boot drive not every single hdd, so its a bit off to expect people to be psychic and assume they should unplug all drives.
fat vs ntfs?
Any research would tell you why the swap partition is fat, I have no need for data consistency and hence went for the fastest filesystem for that partition size. Regardless the swap is no longer there, sorry this proposed fix had no affect.
Also I couldnt make a active partition inactive, I see no option in disk management to do that, so the old system reserved partition I simply deleted insted, the original windows partition has already been deleted and remade into a new documents partition, so all remnants of the old windows partitions are gone.
