Startup message: "Drive <whatever> is missing." Who cares???

I used to have a dedicated swap partition on a separate drive, which I must have named WINSWAP2.

Windows keeps complaining on startup that "Drive WINSWAP2 is missing." and stops for a bunch of seconds to make sure I get the message.

I thought it might be a message from a drive-relettering/renaming utility, but this is not the case. On this machine I did a clean reinstall and did not need to reletter anything.

I did not specifically use partiton names to specify where stuff went. I only did "My Computer" -> "Properties" -> "Performance" -> "Virtual memory" and selected a drive.

So I guess Windows learned of that partition on install.

How do I convince Windows that no one cares if WINSAP2 is there or not, & to stop the complaints?

 

Hi Steve!

Uh, I sort of expected a question like
"why do you have a separate swap partition? ",
but here I sense insight rather than a trollout!

No, not mentioned as "networked ".

Also, the swapfile is in another partition on the same spindle, and Windows knows it:
- Windows created it where I wanted and in the size I wanted
- the VM dialog now reflects that.

My partition lineup currently is:
C: = 5000MB, OS and apps
D: =50MB, some rescue files, used for DOS experiments years ago
E: = 500MB temporary files (TEMP, internet caches, etc), could usefully be larger as CD burning apps assemble images there
F: = 500MB, just swap
G: = 2000MB, work files, incl. application data
H: = 8000MB, cold storage (files from WinME and MS Office CDs, rarely touched user files, etc.)

All this defrags in under 30 min. after months of use,
and is also easier to back up.

I used to have an I: partition for swap on the second HD, which is mostly Linux, but I got rid of it as I do not use swap that much, so there was no little speed advantage.

WinME can only use one swap file, unlike NT-2k-XP, so I used to have an unused swap partition.

I am not sure if WINSWAP2 was F: on the master HD or I: on the slave.

 

The comp still complains that the WINSWAP2 drive is missing
(the exact wording is "Drive WINSWAP2 not present. "),
but everything else seems fine otherwise.

Do I have to worry? Can I get rid of the message?

How do I tell Windows to refresh the set of partition it thinks it's supposed to have?
(Is WIndows "it ", "she ", or "he ", or, God forbid, "they" ?)

 

Open your System.Ini file with Notepad, looked under the [386Enh] section for this line, make sure there isn't any others. This one should be there.
PagingDrive=F:
Did you set the size of your swap file to the size of the drive, if so reset the Minimum to half the size, and do not set a Maximum.