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Is a pagefile required for each drive?

#1 User is offline   Cardinal 

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Posted 16 March 2001 - 09:34 AM

Hey guys.

I have the one drive set up with two partitions, running a dual OS setup. ME/W2K
and have set the pagefile to my w2k drive. The problem is, it worked fine for a while but recently when I booted I received a message saying my pagefile is too small. I set it up as 384 min/max on my w2k partition and so went in to check if the size had changed. It hadn't, but a 20 meg pagefile was also running on my winME partition. I deleted this and rebooted to receive a message "no pagefile set etc" Whats the story here? Why isn't w2k recognising my pagefile on the 2nd partition? surely it does not need to pagefiles.

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#2 User is offline   Brian Frank 

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Posted 17 March 2001 - 08:48 AM

Each OS you have must have its own swap file.
Dont delete it.
I have mine set like this: Min:1.5xRAM, Max:2xRAM.
On a dual boot, either have a separate swap partition for both OS's, or just keep the swap file for the OS on its respective partition.
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