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Re: How can I put the pagefile.sys on an external usb hard disk?

Subject: Re: How can I put the pagefile.sys on an external usb hard disk?
From: "Yves Leclerc"
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:48:38 -0500
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
On 31/01/2006 "mikeemil" <mikeemil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>XP Pof. ignores the settings and put it on internal hard disk.  I have not 
>boot from internal hard disk. C: is a primary and the active partition on the 
>external storage but XP put the pagefile.sys on D:. This is the first 
>partition of my internal hard disk.
>I want sent the internal storage back to the vendor, so it would be great if 
>there is a possibility.

The pagefile needs to always have access to a storage system and usually must 
follow where XP is installed.  Since you can not install XP onto a USB or 
Firewire drive, then NO, you can not place the pagefile on an external USB 
drive.

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