How to reserve a Drive for Virtual Memory..........?

satyamy · 24-03-2007, 11:59 PM

Just now i buyied a new PC
it has 160GB hdd
i made 5 partition
C= 52GB
D, E, F, G, = 25GB each
i installed windows on C drive
now i want to reserve drive D for page file
how can i make that drive so that no one can put their files on it neither they can open it & see what is in it
Only windows can use it to manage virtual memory that is page file
How is this possible.............?
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also i want to use make one drive reserve for file recovery
i saw that in my friends HP Pavillion Laptop
he has one drive reserve for system recovery
he has HP system recovery software in it
but is their any other software like that

How can i do this

Pls help............?

I found one software in my IntelDC102 motherboard do anyone have idea about that........?

s18000rpm · 25-03-2007, 11:27 AM

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To enhance performance, it is good practice to put the paging file on a different partition and on a different physical hard disk drive.

That way, Windows can handle multiple I/O requests more quickly. When the paging file is on the boot partition, Windows must perform disk reading and writing requests on both the system folder and the paging file. When the paging file is moved to a different partition, there is less competition between reading and writing requests.

read the whole quote, very imp. stuff.

for those having two+ HDD

source: Microsoft Support - Article 314482

so, just allocate the page file in C: drive itself.

about the Recovery thing, maybe Acronis True Image will be helpful.

btw is your friend's laptop ~ XP problem resolved

satyamy · 25-03-2007, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by s18000rpm

read the whole quote, very imp. stuff.

for those having two+ HDD

source: Microsoft Support - Article 314482

Thanks for the Help

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btw is your friend's laptop ~ XP problem resolved

No, not yet, actually he has gone out for attenting some session
he'll be back after a week after than i'll try F11 & all the method that you ppl told me & will solve his prob

Thanks for the Great Help

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