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Originally Posted by WillyPete
Pagefile as recommended my MS, should be either on a different partition or a totally different drive.
It should be about 2x your RAM size.
Remember to hit SET to make the change and DON'T do like a guy I worked with and clear the C: pagefile and reboot without first SETtin a new one on D:.
XP don't work too well without a pagefile. P.I.T.A to go through the recovery console panel etc.
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XP will survive without a pagefile, assuming you don't try to do something that exceeds available RAM. Many programs rely on it and allocate "virtually", beyond what they really need, but the OS itself won't do that. Worst case, if a driver or startup program tanks without a pagefile, boot in safe mode to set one up again.
Good point about the separate drive. A different partition on the same drive with Windows isn't good. It guarantees bad access times. But a partition on a separate drive/array guarantees access 2nd only to RAM.