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Old 8th September 2001 | 18:40
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Ausatco
 
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Viva,

Do you have 2 physical drives, or one partitioned into 2 logical drives?

If the former, you could put your swap file on the D drive as follows:-

Control panel|System|Performance|Virtual Memory. Select "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings." Use the drop-down list to select your D drive and adjust both minimum and maximum to the same figure, about 2.5 times the amount of RAM you have. There are tech issues about these parameters, but what I have suggested will work. OK your way out and re-boot.

If the latter - ie one drive with two partitions, you could try something like Partition Magic (commercial program from PowerQuest http://www.powerquest.com/ ) which will allow you to adjust the size of your C and D partitions without losing data. Microsoft's version of the same tool is Fdisk - it destroys all your data if you use it to alter partitions, so don't use it unless you want to clean off your drives and start again.

AA

[ 08 September 2001: Message edited by: Ausatco ]
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