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Asked: 2013-07-31 03:15:05 +0800 CST

Windows Pagefile placement

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Is it possible to reserve a desired region of a given hard disk drive for placement of the pagefile.sys before enabling the page file on that drive?

windows-server-2003

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  1. Windows only allows you to choose the drive letter on which the paging file resides, you cannot select a sector offset or range.

    That said, if by "desired region" you would accept "separate partition" then yes, you may select a specified region on a disk. You would need to create a valid partition in the desired region and assign the partition a drive letter in within Windows. Then you would select the new drive letter as the paging file location.

    I would recommend a flexible disk partitioning tool for sizing and creating the partition. A bootable live Linux distro with parted, gParted, or similar tool, should help.

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