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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: adamsmasher001 on February 22, 2003, 09:19:25 PM

Title: 2nd HD for swap file in XP
Post by: adamsmasher001 on February 22, 2003, 09:19:25 PM

greetings programs... have a question about XP, and decided to tap a vast knowledge base... here goes.

I installed XP Pro...blah blah blah.... I dug on old(er) 3.5gig hd outta the parts bucket, and was wondering if I could install it and tell XP to use it as the swap file... I set my swap as a static 1gig on the main HD, but I wanted to put the older drive to use. Its a bit too small for installing the OS, my roommate tried to do that on a drive the same size, and it kept teling him to clean up more space etc etc...

just trying to put an old HD to efficient use. thanks for ay help.

adamsmahser001

Title: 2nd HD for swap file in XP
Post by: Tracky110XP on February 25, 2003, 10:17:30 AM

OK ---- FYI don\'t want ot come accross rude with this but in the NT platform it is not a swap file it is a paging file.

and here is the informaition that you need

307886.KB.EN-US HOW TO: Move the Paging File in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; (http://\"http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;\")[LN];307886

Title: 2nd HD for swap file in XP
Post by: Rampage on February 26, 2003, 07:09:33 AM

Hi,

 I recommend not to do that if the second drive is slower. Also, the 3.5G drive is too small for WinXP. The better use is to save your data, or a storage to copy CDROMs from.