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JoeImp
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Stupid windows. I set up my pagefile to be on my D drive, and it was working fine for a long time. I go to defrag today, and I defrag my C drive where windows is, and I notice a bar of red this big <----------------------> that can't be defragged, and it says it is 'pagefile.sys'. I'm like 'what the hell?' I have a pagefile on D, not C. So I go look on C, and sure enough, there's a 1.5GB pagefile on C. I look on D, and theres nothing there. There used to be a pagefile, but for some reason it's disapeared.
So, I go and look in the pagefile settings. According to windows, there is no pagefile on C, and it is set up on D like I want it. Wtf?
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Stupid windows. |
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NETWizz
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I think you can delete pagefile.sys if it is not in use.
It should be recreated if needed. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 06:07:09 am Post subject: |
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| It doesn't remove the pagefile if you choose to use another drive, just remove pagefile.sys. |
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JoeImp
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 11:09:39 am Post subject: |
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| There was never a pagefile there before with the same settings, and now when I go to delete it, it says it's 'In Use' and I can't delete it |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 11:35:07 am Post subject: |
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cmd.exe
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del /f pagefile.sys |
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JoeImp
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 12:33:42 pm Post subject: |
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"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."
Guess I'm going to go mess with the settings a lot again |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 07:25:57 pm Post subject: |
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Did you do a hard (not suspend/hibernate) reboot?
Does the D drive have sufficient space for the pagefile?
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NETWizz
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 07:52:06 pm Post subject: |
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| You delete it in safemode |
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JoeImp
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 11:02:52 pm Post subject: |
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| After half an hour of messing with it, it actually decided to make the pagefile on the right drive (which has about 40GB free Arcane), and I could delete the one on C with no problems. Yay |
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NETWizz
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2005 11:19:23 pm Post subject: |
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Usually you re-assign the page file and then do a reboot.
Somewhere durring the reboot widnows deletes the old pagefile and creates one on the new drive. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 23 Jul 2005 07:26:57 am Post subject: |
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I've never had it delete the old pagefile for me, never in at least several dozen times of changing the drive it should be on (and rebooting).
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wrigley
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2005 02:32:51 am Post subject: |
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| Great topic title!!! :biggrin: |
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