XP - shifting pagefile?

Davegod

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I'm trying to shift my pagefile off the second harddisk, in order to format the thing.

So I go right-click My Computer, to the Performance Settings options screen, etc etc and hit "change" under virtual memory. Put a "system managed size" partition on my boot drive, hit set, then change this to "no pagefile" on the one I want it removed from. Hit OK a couple of times, reboot, and all seems fine - except that there is still a 1gig pagefile.sys sitting on the drive!





FWIW/other problem - the reason I'm formatting is that second HDD has 3 "partitions", or more accurately one partition and one extended partition, the latter consisting of two logical drives, one of which I want to merge with the other partition - and the other logical drive being the one with the swapfile on it. I just want 2 "partitions". (metaphorical 1000 words)
 

Nothinman

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Did you delete the pagefile on the second drive? It's possible it's not being used but just never got deleted.
 

Davegod

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bit hesitant to try manually deleting it, espeically since deleting the other partitions also took my ghost files (no DVD burner yet) :eek:
 

Nothinman

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I didn't mean the partition, just the pagefile and you can't delete the pagefile if it's in use, there's no harm in trying.
 

Davegod

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I've chucked it into a folder and will see if anything breaks over the next reboot or two.

erm, how do I actually format the thing into 1 disk anyway? I've not done it "properly" for bloody ages, only needed the format via XP install and from within Disk Management.