Dual Boot - 98SE & XP

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Tamiami

Greetings,

Well, I finally bit the bullet and created a dualboot system with both
98SE and XP on the same hard drive residing in individual partitions.
So far, so good. But I do have a question; can I delete the
pagefile.sys that the XP installation created on the 98SE drive? It is
a hundred million-kazillion MB's and seems like clutter to me since it
hasn't been accessed since the XP installation several days ago. I'm
assuming that it is XP's answer to .swp. Just wondering why XP needs
two pagefiles. Especially one residing in the 98SE root.

Also, with conservativeswapfileusage enabled in 98SE before the XP
installation, the swap file was nonexistent (1GB DDR). Is the
conservativeswapfileusage option available with XP. Just curious.

Thanks.
 
Do not delete the Pagefile. Depending on the amount of Ram your system
has the pagefile can be adjusted. You can use Task Manager>Performance to
monitor the page file. It tells you the peak and average usage. With 512MB
of Ram mine runs at about 250
and peaks at 300MB's. So for the most part I can set my page file at
600Max.
Rt click MyComputer>select
Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>
Virtual Memory-Change. You should let Windows handle it but you have the
option of
entering values of Min and Max. I have my Max and Min set at 600. Others
will differ.
It's not uncommon for a system to have 2G + of Ram. Still a page file is
important.
 
Rich said:
Do not delete the Pagefile. Depending on the amount of Ram your system
has the pagefile can be adjusted. You can use Task Manager>Performance to
monitor the page file. It tells you the peak and average usage. With 512MB
of Ram mine runs at about 250
and peaks at 300MB's. So for the most part I can set my page file at
600Max.
Rt click MyComputer>select
Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>
Virtual Memory-Change. You should let Windows handle it but you have the
option of
entering values of Min and Max. I have my Max and Min set at 600. Others
will differ.
It's not uncommon for a system to have 2G + of Ram. Still a page file is
important.
Click to expand...

Thanks Rich, but I still don't understand why the 98SE installation
would need an XP pagefile, too.
 
Sorry, it was my understanding that you only had one page file and
that was located on
your C: partition. If that's not the case you can still remove the page
file from Win98SE
by following my previous instructions. You can delete it but it will
come back again on
next startup unless you remove it from Virtual Memory-Change.
 
Rich said:
Sorry, it was my understanding that you only had one page file and
that was located on
your C: partition. If that's not the case you can still remove the page
file from Win98SE
by following my previous instructions. You can delete it but it will
come back again on
next startup unless you remove it from Virtual Memory-Change.
Click to expand...

Thanks again.
 
I am not sure of the details of your situation, but performance is likely to
be enhanced by a XP pagefile in a drive that is not used much by XP. A
pagefile gets substantial activity and if a pagefile is in a drive that the
heads do not often leave the pagefile then of course XP can access the
pagefile faster than if the heads must travel far to get to it.
 
Sam said:
I am not sure of the details of your situation, but performance is likely to
be enhanced by a XP pagefile in a drive that is not used much by XP. A
pagefile gets substantial activity and if a pagefile is in a drive that the
heads do not often leave the pagefile then of course XP can access the
pagefile faster than if the heads must travel far to get to it.
Click to expand...

Traveling distance makes sense to me Sam, but why would XP need to
access a pagefile in the 98SE partition?
 
Tamiami said:
Traveling distance makes sense to me Sam, but why would XP need to access
a pagefile in the 98SE partition?
Click to expand...


I answered that question. I said nothing about 98SE and 98SE is irrelevant
to this. Read what I said without "reading into it" something I did not say.
 
Tamiami said:
Traveling distance makes sense to me Sam, but why would XP need to
access a pagefile in the 98SE partition?
Click to expand...

By default the pagefile is located in the root of the system partition.
The system partition is where the files boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and
ntldr are located.

John
 
Like John said, WinXP does install the bootloader
on the C: partition when dual booting with Win9X. You can verify this by
opening Win
Explorer in Win98SE select Tools>Folder Options>View>Check the Show
hidden files
and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files.
you will see Boot.ini, NTLDR, and NTDetect.com
 
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