i have only one notebook 500gb hard disk, and i allready created my partitions and OS installed. I want to make a fat32 partition at the begining of my hard disk(outher track), with the the only purpose for page files. followed by the OS partition and the DATA/Storage partition What are those softwares that lets me do this and how can i use them? i was thinking to format and repartition with acronis. and after that to restore a system image backup from a CD store exactly where i want. what do you think?
This software is really nice and handy... You can use a lot of the features for free..unlimited.. Boot-It NG
If it was me I'd just turn it off altogether unless you're running a server...btw why would you want to make it FAT32 and not NTFS? You won't be able to make it FAT32 anyway if your drive is formatted as NTFS...you'd have to convert the whole drive afaik... Also if you're going to use a PF with a single drive, you're better off leaving it on the same partition as your OS.. That aside I think O&0 defrag is a pretty good application, or ultimate defrag...
fat32 manages better temporary files. how to turn the page file off? i mean, i have 4Gb ram, but it doesnt matter because windows will allways use virtual memory. i would of prefered to have my OS partition as small as it can. and yes, o&o its great! i recommend it to for defragmenting
The virtual memory is kept in RAM, - not the disc, when you disable pagefile. Why would you think FAT32 manages files better than ntfs? Btw Yeah I agree O&O is pretty awesome .. To disable PF right click on My Computer----Properties---Advanced System Settings---Performance/Settings-----Advanced "No paging File". Then go into C drive and delete the pagefile.sys file, that'll save you a few GB of space. You'll need to unhide protected operating system files firdt.
I use Acronis its pretty good at what it does, so yeah you can do what your looking to do with that software.
Incorrect. You can have multiple different partitions on one disk. Use gParted to organise your disk partitions. You can use it as a live-CD. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Fat32 doesn't manage the PF better. What it DOES have over NTFS however is larger cluster sizes (32KB vs 4KB) so in theory large files will be read more efficiently. The performance difference is so negligible these days the effort isn't worth it. IMHO, for a single drive, enable the pagefile and let windows manage it. You will not notice any difference putting the pagefile on a partition separate to the OS on the same disk. For more than one hard drive putting the pagefile on a drive separate to the OS will ensure that if the OS drive is busy doing I/O operations then reading/writing to the page file isn't going to slow things down.
This only applies to the default cluster size. Cluster size on NTFS partitions can be configured when the partition is formated. @komputer - why don't you just disable the PF altogether?
im having second thoughts about disabling PF because, no matter how much memory you have Windows is gonna swap stuff out. Programs and games will force writes to the page file even when oodles of physical memory is available. i can confirm this watching task managers memory usage and virtual memory list. but even so, you recommend disabling it?
This thread should be able to answer all your questions, komputer: :nerd: 8GB RAM with NO PAGEFILE CLUB or TOPIC (lol) http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=293641
ahaha..brilliant :nerd: u know i noticed a small difference about BOOT TIME when enabling pagefile . i mean a little bit faster i guess..but hey, i disabled pagefile because what ever u do, without checking ur amount of GBs of ram, windows uses PAGE FILE on the HDD.which makes thing slower. and buzzes the hDD sound annoys me.
