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Pagefile.sys is locked hard. XP reads it as if the filesystem wasn't there.
I'm curious why it would become fragmented unless you keep up-sizing it in between copying files to the swap partition? A separate partition and fragmentation don't seem to go together. Set min and max to equal values and be done with it.
Really, if you have some need for huge disk paging space you should add another disk.
Going to this effort on the same spindle won't help nearly as much.
With memory prices, you're better off reducing possible paging hits to the disk. If you have even 512MB, set disablepagingexecutive=1 in CurrentControlSet and minimize the pagefile size as appropriate. Tiny if you have more RAM, a little bigger if you don't. Unless your needs are very unusual there's no need for a big pagefile, let alone a separate partition.
I'll second the windows partitioning oddness. MS tools have always been delicate on anything but a clean drive.
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