doug Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 Before the recent defrag I had followed a suggestion and set my swap file onto anothe HD. Now all the partitions were FAT 32. During my re-install of XP Pro I chose for the C:\ drive to be changed to NTFS. I have also chosen to move the the swap file to my F:\ drive. While defragging after a lot in new installs I note that there is a large chunk of the C:\ drived still reserved for the swap/paging file. Have I not done something properly?I'll follow this up with some screen shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 Hope this is readable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 here is mine Doug.... don't know if that helps!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Not so far Nel. As Ive got generous HD spaces I'm trying to shift the paging file to another drive. It worked before. I had found previously that using the paging file on the same disc as the operating system can aggravate fragmentation problems. If you've got a big one then use it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 While defragging after a lot in new installs I note that there is a large chunk of the C:\ drived still reserved for the swap/paging file.If you have set C: to have no page file then it will not hve one.What are you seeing in defragger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 This is using diskeeper lite, the diagonally slashed area says it's reserved for system files. Is the NTFS house keeping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Your C drive is NTFS and your other drives are FAT32. I don't think you will be able to put your swap file on another drive whilst it is FAT32....... think I read something about that somewhere!!! :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Should I convert the D:\ to Ntfs. Any ideas how I can follow this up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 I'm not sure on this one Doug..... someone will come along in a minute with a bit more knowhow on this one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Q: Is it possible to convert a FAT32 Hard Drive to NTFS without losing all data on the drive? I like to change from FAT32 to NTFS, my operating system is Windows XP PRO, how can I do that? Without the lost of my programs? A: Standard Windows utility that is called CONVERT serves this purposeJust go to the Command Prompt and execute the command: C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfsWhere C: is a name of the drive you want to convert. After machine re-boot conversion process will start and you'll have your FAT32 converted to NTFS without of data loss.http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htmI've done it with no problem doug on my last machine.Don't forget to change "C" to "D" in your case :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Gee thanks, will give that a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 That worked - but. There is now a 2MB paging file set up on the D: drive but even though I set the C: drive to no paging file it's still insisting on using 768 MB, i.e. 1.5 x the RAM. What next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 doug the optimun use of the paging file is to have it on both drives,I did some reading on this as I have a master and a slave drive and microsoft recommend you share it on the drives not one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 OK, thanks ellas. I'll do the brave thing and do nothing. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikeychris Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Some people advocate moving the swap file to a different drive and if its being moving it from a 5400rpm drive with a 1MB buffer to a 7200 drive with an 8MB buffer then it would make sense but I've never thought that was worthwhile unless your using SCSI drives. Multiple SCSI drives can overlap simultaneous operations, but IDE drives cannot. That's in the arena of speed, of course, not the fragmentation issue All VM does is write data from memory to disk when it isn't needed, if you have enough RAM installed and don't multi task too much, letting Windows manage its own VM should be enough for all your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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