doublea2 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I just recently installed vista on my current machine, duel booting I still have xp on drive c and vista on d. I bought a 4 GB Ready boost drive from new egg for not too much, and I have that installed and working. (see attached photo) I am wondering if I switched my virtual memory from drive d (c according to vista) to drive c (win xp) would I have problems. Put simpler can I use virtual memory off of my windows xp drive when I still have XP on that drive, or will that hurt things? When I attempt I get a waining message that isn't very clear see attached photo. From http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virtual-memory1.htm "you have multiple hard drives, you can get the best performance by using the least busy drive for virtual memory. For example, if you have a D: drive on which you store documents, it may be better to use that, rather than the C: drive, because the C: drive is pretty busy with Windows and your installed programs. If you have multiple physical drives, you can get a little performance boost by splitting the paging file across the two drives. A single drive that?s partitioned into two or more partitions, to look like multiple drives, doesn?t count. You don?t want to divide the paging file across multiple partitions on a single drive, because that will have the reverse effect of slowing things down. If you do opt for a custom size, you can work with any one hard drive at a time. The drives are listed by letter and label at the top of the dialog box. In the example shown, all of the partitions actually reside on a single disk." Assuming I'm doing this all for best preformace... I currently have GB physical ram. Thanks again Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/563020-some-important-virtual-memory-ready-boost-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted May 26, 2007 Veteran Share Posted May 26, 2007 If you have multiple drives, it's always best to get the page file on a drive other than the one your current windows install is on. Your XP install would be fine. That warning message is letting you know that if you get a system crash and don't leave a 20mb pagefile on the vista drive, you may not get a record of what exactly crashed and the details surrounding it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/563020-some-important-virtual-memory-ready-boost-questions/#findComment-588581085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublea2 Posted May 26, 2007 Author Share Posted May 26, 2007 bangbang023 said: If you have multiple drives, it's always best to get the page file on a drive other than the one your current windows install is on. Your XP install would be fine. That warning message is letting you know that if you get a system crash and don't leave a 20mb pagefile on the vista drive, you may not get a record of what exactly crashed and the details surrounding it. ok, SO shail I leave a tiny bit of space on drive c? 9vista system) also on the xp drive shail I have the system manage the size or... shail I set a size and what size? thanks :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/563020-some-important-virtual-memory-ready-boost-questions/#findComment-588581218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted May 26, 2007 Veteran Share Posted May 26, 2007 Generally speaking, I've always heard to set the page file to 1.5 times the amount of physical ram you have. However, if you have 2gb, a 1gb pagefile has proven to be more than enough for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/563020-some-important-virtual-memory-ready-boost-questions/#findComment-588582509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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