pagefile.sys

What do you mean "unable to remove it"?  If you are attempting to remove by deletion that would not work.  Have you gone to System Properties (either via right clicking on My Computer or from Control Panel)|Advanced|Performance Settings|Advanced|Virtual Memory|Change to see what the settings are there.  If that indicates that a pagefile has been set up for the F: drive as well as the C:, change the F: drive settings so that minimum size is 0 and maximum size is 0.  My only caveat is who set it up that way to begin with and why?  Unless you have a significant lack of space on the C: drive the most effective setting is to allow Windows to handle the size (rather than specifying a minimum/maximum).  BUT, if you do have limited space on the C: drive you may want to keep both pagefiles.

Thanks Bill,

I believe that when I was partitioning my drive, I mistakenly thought I could put the pagefile.sys file on my logical drive and thus have a smaller primary drive to put on a Ghost Image. Somehow I managed to get the pagefile there and didn't notice until recently that it was also still on my C drive.

Anyway your instructions pointed the way to deleting it on the logical drive.

With Virtual Memory  "Change" you can just click on the Drive & select "No Paging file".

Actually, if you have more than one partition, MS recommends putting a page file on a separate drive:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314482&Product=winxp

See also

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

scroll down to 'Number 4'

 

Ok..  Will try 512  on C and 786 on D.