Bob, I'm curious, why do you want to do this? Putting the pagefile on a
removable drive doesn't sound like a good idea. It certainly won't be good
for performance, being limited to USB2 speeds.
You didn't say anything about how you tried to move your paging file, or
what version of Windows you're running, so I'll assume that it is Windows
XP. How did you change your paging settings? Did you go into the Virtual
Memory control panel (System control panel, Advanced tab, Performance block,
Settings button, Advanced tab, Virtual memory block, Change button - whew!)
and set "no paging file" for the C: drive and then click the Set button?
That should be all you need to do.
-Mike
> From: Bob Stockler
>
> Sorry for the Off Topic (ie: Not ThinkPad specific) but this
> is the best resource this UNIX bigot and Windows neophyte has . . .
>
> G41 2886-5TU - Mobile Pentium 4 532 - 3.06 Ghz - 1 Mb L2 Cache
> 2 Gb RAM - 80 Gb Toshiba 5400rpm HDD
>
> My C:\pagefile.sys is size 2,087,340 KB, and I wanted to
> recover that HDD space. I have a WD Passport drive as E:\,
> and I've done everything I can learn to do, via HELP on my
> system, M$ Help, and Google on the InterNet to move my
> PAGEFILE from C:\ to E:\.
>
> Theoretically, I have it setup so now, but the pagefile on
> C:\ is still the same size, and it can't be deleted (file
> busy, used by a program), and the pagefile on E:\ is still
> size 0 (maybe because I'm not paging) but it's set to be the
> same size as the one on C:\ had been set.
>
> I tried removing both pagefile.sys files and both give the
> same error. I tried in Safe Mode with similar results.
>
> The UNIX bigot has UWIN installed on his system, and using it
> to view the permissions on C:\pagefile.sys he sees --- ---
> ---, which he can't change for the same (file busy) reasons.
>
> How do I recover this HDD space on my C: drive ? ? ?
>
> Bob Stockler (UNIX bigot in need of simpatico M$ expert help)
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