Pagefile re-created in pieces

[kduncan5]

All weekend I have been fighting with this and I can't figure it out for the life of me. I've reformatted/reinstalled XP Home several times over the weekend. Usually when I reinstall XP and all my software, I'll disable a fractured pagefile then recreate it whole, so I can then use my O&O Defrag's boot time defrag of the pagefile & registry. But each time I recreate the pagefile now, it's recreated in pieces (anywhere from 2 to 5) and the boot time defrag won't work with a fractured pagefile. It gets stuck then I have to power down manually & reboot.

I've done this very same thing on numerous occasions and it never fails me. But this time, no matter what I do, I can't get XP to recreate a solid pagefile. Every time it wants to recreate it in pieces. This last time I even low-level formatted. I've even specified a set size for min/max and it still wants to create a fractured pagefile.

What's weird is, normally when I set the system-managed pagefile after having set No pagefile, it tells me there's already a pagefile.sys and wants to know if I want to overwrite the existing pagefile.sys, I tell it Yes, and that's it. But now, when I set the system-managed pagefile, it doesn't ask to overwrite an existing pagefile.sys anymore. Another thing: When I set No Pagefile, it usually tells me I need to reboot to see the changes. It hasn't been doing that, and consequently there's a phantom pagefile that won't defrag, then I have to trick the system into accepting the fact that there is no pagefile.

My self-built machine:

Aspire Turbo X-Pider mid-tower case
Intel D865Perl motherboard
P4 2.8ghz Northwood (HT)
1024mb Corsair VS PC3200
80gb WD SE (7200rpm, 8mb)
NVidia GeForce4 TI4200 (VIVO)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Sony CD-R/W
Pioneer DVD-R/W
Sony SDM-HX73B LCD

Any ideas? I won't be able to utilize the full potential of my O&O Defrag's boot time defrag until I can get this thing to recreate a solid pagefile. This is driving me nuts...

Thanks, -kd5-

 

[kduncan5]

Oh, and another thing: I've tested the hard drive with numerous utilities (WD Data Lifeguard, V-Com System Suite 5 diagnostics, Intel Desktop Control Center's Stability test, etc.), the hard drive is in good shape. -kd5-

 

[Navid]

What is the size of the partition that contains the pagefile? What is the size of the pagefile?

 

[kduncan5]

Appreciate your response but it looks like O&O resolved the issue by itself. I decided just to set the system-managed pagefile, set up O&O's boot time defrag, reboot, and walk away from from it.

Couldn't resist checking up on it and discovered it was just sitting there at the boot time defrag doing nothing, with the hard drive light full ON. Any other time I'd've gotten frustrated, powered down, rebooted, dealt with the .chk files generated by chkdisk, and kept fooling around with it and getting more & more frustrated by it.

But I just walked away from it this time.

A little later, I heard Windows finish booting up. O&O had powered its way through the mess, defragmented the pagefile, and left it in one...whole...piece. Problem solved... :Q

I love my O&O Defrag... :heart:


To answer your question, it's a single FAT32 partition, XP established a pagefile size of 1532mb. -kd5-