I need to know which of my partitions is closest to the beginning of the drive, but I don't remember the order in which I created them. Is there an easy way to find out?
Open Computer Management then expand the "Disk Management" and it will show you the partitions.
How to display the Computer Management Console...
Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
For information about using Disk Management, in Computer Management, click Help on the Action menu.
It's the OS drive. One partition holds the OS (c), a second hold my personal files(d), and a third holds all of my gaming files(g).
I noticed the other day that my swapfile was in 5 segements, so I want to redefine it. There only space big enough on c: at the end of the drive, but d: and g: both have plenty of space right at the beginning, where a swapfile would fit just nicely. I'm pretty sure that my OS partition is the first one I created, which would mean it would be better to just redefine the swapfile at the end of c:, rather than at the beginning of either of the others, but I don't really remember the order, so I want to make sure.
Open Computer Management then expand the "Disk Management" and it will show you the partitions.
How to display the Computer Management Console...
Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
For information about using Disk Management, in Computer Management, click Help on the Action menu.
That's the first thing I did, but it lists them in alphabetical order, so I wasn't sure if that was actually the order on the drive, or if that was just the order in the list.
If you created partitions during install, then C is where the OS was installed and is the first one created because the first one you create gets assigned C by default. Unless you changed the letters after creation of each partition, I do believe that C must be the first and at the beginning of the drive.
If you created partitions during install, then C is where the OS was installed and is the first one created because the first one you create gets assigned C by default. Unless you changed the letters after creation of each partition, I do believe that C must be the first and at the beginning of the drive.
Yeah, I created the partitions using the windows intstall disk. so I guess c: is at the beginning.. Okay, I'll move the swapfile to another partition, then defrag c:, then reallocate the swapfile there, so it isn't fragmented anymore.
If you get the trial of Diskeeper or O&O.. they have a boot time that will defrag the pagefile and then when you go back into Windows..you can defrag everything
If you get the trial of Diskeeper or O&O.. they have a boot time that will defrag the pagefile and then when you go back into Windows..you can defrag everything
Wouldn't it defrag the chunk into the end of the drive, where there is room for the whole thing?
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How to display the Computer Management Console...
Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
For information about using Disk Management, in Computer Management, click Help on the Action menu.
I noticed the other day that my swapfile was in 5 segements, so I want to redefine it. There only space big enough on c: at the end of the drive, but d: and g: both have plenty of space right at the beginning, where a swapfile would fit just nicely. I'm pretty sure that my OS partition is the first one I created, which would mean it would be better to just redefine the swapfile at the end of c:, rather than at the beginning of either of the others, but I don't really remember the order, so I want to make sure.
That's the first thing I did, but it lists them in alphabetical order, so I wasn't sure if that was actually the order on the drive, or if that was just the order in the list.
Wouldn't it defrag the chunk into the end of the drive, where there is room for the whole thing?
Sure then watch your system throw a fit when programs that are hard coded to use the page file - try and use the page file.
QFT. Windows XP (and even moreso Vista) needs a pagefile regardless of how much physical RAM the system has.