- Dec 29, 2014
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Had some time a couple of months ago so I moved the page file onto a 12 GB partition on the main drive. Set the partition to system managed and then turned off paging for all the other drives. With Windows 7, Windows uses the drive set to system managed for the whole system, so it automatically created a new page file on the partition and started to use that instead of the old one on the C partition. Well, yesterdary, I decided I would try moving the page file to a secondary drive even though that drive is not a 6GB drive (main is a 6 GB standard disk drive) after reading again why it's not a good idea to use a partition on the main drive for paging. Simple I thought, so I quickly switched the Windows setting over to a new partition on the remote drive in the case and happily rebooted to activate the setting. Not such a good idea as it turns out.
I never determined exactly what went wrong. I do know there were two page files on the system, one on the main drive partition and one on the secondary partition. I do know the PC would not boot no matter what I tried. I even restored an image of the main drive from the previous day but still no boot. So, I looked around for answers and when nothing worked I decided I try one thing that crossed my mind earlier. That was simply now that I had restored an image to before the change to delete the new partition that had the newer page file. O/C that worked, so it must be that a page file on more than one drive will confuse Windows 7 during boot time. Cost me a couple of hours. Oh well.
Now the question is how to do this without breaking the boot...and do I have the courage to try? I probably will, but I think this time I will turn off paging and reboot and then delete the page file on the partition or just delete the partition and combine it with the main one. Then I can create the new partition and change the setting to see what happens with another restart I guess. I suspect it will work but who knows. Think I will put it off a couple of days anyway.....um, or maybe tonight . Yep probably tonight...
I never determined exactly what went wrong. I do know there were two page files on the system, one on the main drive partition and one on the secondary partition. I do know the PC would not boot no matter what I tried. I even restored an image of the main drive from the previous day but still no boot. So, I looked around for answers and when nothing worked I decided I try one thing that crossed my mind earlier. That was simply now that I had restored an image to before the change to delete the new partition that had the newer page file. O/C that worked, so it must be that a page file on more than one drive will confuse Windows 7 during boot time. Cost me a couple of hours. Oh well.
Now the question is how to do this without breaking the boot...and do I have the courage to try? I probably will, but I think this time I will turn off paging and reboot and then delete the page file on the partition or just delete the partition and combine it with the main one. Then I can create the new partition and change the setting to see what happens with another restart I guess. I suspect it will work but who knows. Think I will put it off a couple of days anyway.....um, or maybe tonight . Yep probably tonight...