Guest William Oertell Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Does anyone know of any method of getting pagefile.sys to the front of the drive? The only defragmenter I know of that can move specified files to the front of a disk is Norton's SpeedDisk, but to get that you've got to purchase the rest of Norton's Utilities, which I don't need or want. I don't even want Norton Utilities installed on my hard drive. I've tried PerfectDisk, DiskKeeper, and Vopt, but none of those allow one to place pagefile.sys at the front of the drive, except for PerfectDisk, which claims that it will order files in the same order they appear in layout.ini. I tried putting C:\pagefile.sys as the first entry in layout.ini, but that had no effect. I want pagefile.sys in the front of the disk so that it won't split the difference between old and new files. I have both swapfiles set to the same minimum and maximum size (4092) on both drives, so they don't change size. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Guest Gerry Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Pagefile.sys, moving William If you have free disk space less than 60% of the operating system partition it becomes difficult to achieve a contiguous pagefile. If you have less than 40% used disk space you can get a contiguous pagefile by setting a zero pagefile, running Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter, restarting the computer and setting the minimum pagefile size to what you would want as a maximum. This does, however, place the pagefile in the middle of the partitition and not the beginning. This doesn't work where you have more than about 40% used disk space (excluding the pagefile) as the process of restarting the computer moves system files into the area you want the pagefile, before the pagefile takes possession. Another way is to achieve a contiguous file is to place the pagefile in it's own partition. However, you need a third party partitioning tool to create the partition i.e. BootIt NG or the like. You can try BootIt on a 30 day trial but if you partition drives it is best to have permanent access to such a tool as you usually need to adjust partition sizes from time to time as needs change. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "William Oertell" <oertell_NOT@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:139gneclfkjq7ca@news.supernews.com... > Does anyone know of any method of getting pagefile.sys to the front > of the drive? The only defragmenter I know of that can move specified > files to the front of a disk is Norton's SpeedDisk, but to get that > you've got to purchase the rest of Norton's Utilities, which I don't > need or want. I don't even want Norton Utilities installed on my hard > drive. I've tried PerfectDisk, DiskKeeper, and Vopt, but none of > those allow one to place pagefile.sys at the front of the drive, > except for PerfectDisk, which claims that it will order files in the > same order they appear in layout.ini. I tried putting C:\pagefile.sys > as the first entry in layout.ini, but that had no effect. > I want pagefile.sys in the front of the disk so that it won't split > the difference between old and new files. I have both swapfiles set > to the same minimum and maximum size (4092) on both drives, so they > don't change size. > Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. >
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