Page File Duplication

Hi,

We have a hard drive that we partitioned into 3 partitions: C, M & N.

We just discovered that we have a 765 MB pagefile.sys file on our M partition and a 0.97 GB pagefile.sys on our C partition.

Our operating system is on the C partition.

Does anyone know why we would have a pagefile.sys on each of these partitions?

Thanks.

 

There is nothing unusual about this. By default XP will place the bulk of the pagefile on your fastest drive unless you tell it not to.

 

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the reply.

I have previously set the initial and maximum sizes for the page file at 1000 MB for the C Drive. I do not have a page file set up for any of the other drives or partitions.

Why do I have the two page files and not just one on the C drive. I have about 11 GB of free space on my C drive.

Thanks.

 

It likely is a dead file from when you had the setting at System Managed.

Fix:

Set to Custom Size and set Minimum and Maximum to 0 (zero)
Reboot to Safe Mode.
Delete the pagefile.sys on anything other than C: by:
Start, Run, cmd

M:
CD \
ATTRIB -R -S -H pagefile.sys
DEL pagefile.sys

Reboot to normal mode.
Reset your pagefile to just drive C at 1 gb.

Then download PageDefrag from Microsoft/Sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

Run that on your C drive.

Regards.

 

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'm going to try your suggestions this evening. I'll post back with the results.

Thanks again.

 

Hi Bill,

Your suggestions solved my problem.

Thanks again.

 

Well that is good news.

Regards.