No. Windows XP will move it for you. Rigth back to the boot drive.

The reason I needed to look something up is something niggled at me. The XP books I have agree on one thing-- that XP needs a 2 MB swpa to store dyn-data for the registry in, and insists on having it on the boot volume. So, to get it to use most of swap on another drive you end up with:

2 MB on boot partition, and an extra defined larger anywhere you want that is reasonably fast. TOTAL size should not be more than 2.5 X RAM for ideal use (minimum waste, reasonably sure of enough across range of uses a box with XP might be used for).

XP willlet you set a VM on a non-boot partition, but if you look afterward after first warm or coldboot you will have either one large back on boot volume or two, with a 2 MB on boot.

Easiest way, then, is to shrink your windows sized one to 2 MB on boot volume. Then you define a second on other HD.

Effectiveness is based on having the swap on another physical mech from program, not merely on having a swap on another logical drive. Most HDs cannot read from two places at once,nor can they write two places at once.

But I do not know how to convince XP Pro not to have to store it's dyn_data registry cache in boot partition, so this explanation is best compromise I know of and can get to work on my XP Pro here. I use XP very seldom these days, but do have relaible references for it.

The one that clued me in to the 2 MB thing was a Que book by Robert Cowart and Brian Knittel called "Special Edition: Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional BestSeller Edition." Also helpful was a book by an MCSE who has written oodles on Windows over the years:
William R. Stanek's "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" continues the series he authored called the Administrator's Pocket Consultant series.

John Danielson.