Somehow I managed to get a duplicate of pagefile.sys on to my F drive, which is a logical partition of my main disk. There is , of course a copy in my root folder on C drive as well. I don't believe I need the copy which is on F drive, but I am unable to remove it. Any suggestions?
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.
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.
Bill Snyder
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Posted April 4th, 2004 18:00