Paging file location change causes problems

Hi,

I have 3 hard drives with assigned characters c, d, f (e drive is cd rom)
each drive has only 1 partition.
On c there is Vista 32-bit Ultimate, on d there is Vista 64-bit home premium

If I change location of paging file - e.g. Vista Ultimate paging on f, Home
paging on c
then that operating system does not boot correctly. The OS boot progress bar
is displayed but system does not boot (I waited many minutes before reset).

Any tip?

 

"Trek" <trecicek_no_spam@centrum.cz> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have 3 hard drives with assigned characters c, d, f (e drive is cd
> rom) each drive has only 1 partition.
> On c there is Vista 32-bit Ultimate, on d there is Vista 64-bit home
> premium
>
> If I change location of paging file - e.g. Vista Ultimate paging on f,
> Home paging on c
> then that operating system does not boot correctly. The OS boot progress
> bar
> is displayed but system does not boot (I waited many minutes before
> reset).
>
> Any tip?
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The tip is to put the pagefile back where it is by default and allow the
operating system to control it. If both of your system drives are visible
simultaneously the O/S may get confused. You have one set to drive F:, yet
there is a drive C: that is visible - along with the "unused" pagefile. It
just may cause problems.

I have placed a page file on drive F: and have had both Windows XP and Vista
use the same pagefile. But in my case, each operating system was hidden from
the other so that at any given time only the used operating system was
visible. The other partition had a "hidden" attribute applied and could not
be seen, written to or read from.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

 

Thanks,

Of course I had to change setting back, but anyway it does not make any
sense, because operating systems are on different harddrives.
This must be bug somewhere in Vista because it is not working properly even
if I only change paging file in one OS to empty hard drive F:

What if I would have some SSD as "cache" and wanted various temporary files
and paging files redirect there.
On linux you write a few commands and it is working even without reboot.

 

Trek wrote:
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Of course I had to change setting back, but anyway it does not make any
> sense, because operating systems are on different harddrives.
> This must be bug somewhere in Vista because it is not working properly
> even if I only change paging file in one OS to empty hard drive F:
>
> What if I would have some SSD as "cache" and wanted various temporary
> files and paging files redirect there.
> On linux you write a few commands and it is working even without reboot.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Is the empty drive formatted?
Seems a dumb question, but it happens that people don't do that.

Perhaps giving the drive a label.

I've done it with XP and Vista, and it does work, tho I've ended up
reverting back to default location (I had XP and Vista share the same small
partition on a third drive).

 

The drive is formatted of course I have some files there. "Empty" means that
in that drive is not any OS installed.