How do you put the swap file at the beginning of the disk

[grrl]

A while back there was a thread on defragging and a couple of people mentioned their swap file was at the start of the disk. How can this be done on Win98?

 

[bacillus]

use norton utilities optimization wizard to do it!

 

[grrl]

I don't have Norton, is there another way?

 

[wolf550e]

i dont think you can without norton optwizard or speedisk.
but why should you? i found no performace difeerance. as long as the paging file is contigous, you're fine.

 

[MallowJr]

yes use a contiguous paging file and you're set.

ANIMALISTIC IN NATURE!!!

 

[John]

<< I don't have Norton, is there another way? >>



Download the trial version, then use SpeedDisk to optimize the pagefile.

 

[TunaBoo]

Make a partition at the beginning of your disk of 1 gig or so, and have a 1 gig fixed size swap file

 

[lowtech1]

<< Make a partition at the beginning of your disk of 1 gig or so, and have a 1 gig fixed size swap file >>



It would work perfectly if only Win89 don't auto matically assign drive letter, and MS OS only boot form C: partition.

You have to use some kind of 3rd party software to create paging file at the outer track.

 

[John]

In addition, a 1GB swap is overkill.

 

[corkyg]

In my opinion, that is the wrong place to put it unless you fix the size of the swap file. If it is not fixed, then it is dynamic, and will constantly be shoving all your files around causing more fragmentation and bad optimization. If you must have it on your C: drive, then put it at the END so that changes do not shove everything else around.

I like a small dedicated partition . . . and the swap file doesn't need to be 1 gig for sure.

 

[jmatt]

Trial Vopt99 , from http://www.cleandisk.com/download/archived.htm

This will move the swap file .

 

[jmatt]

New version , VoptMe from , http://www.cleandisk.com/download.htm