Pagefile question with System restore!

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Hi,

I have 2gigs of PC3200 DDR SDRAM, and two 120 SATA HDDs.

HDD 1 - C:\ 45gig sys. partition, and 2nd partition D:\ Primary (work storage)

HDD 2 - E:\ Primary, 2.5gig partition w/Pagefile located on it, and F:\ Primary 117gig for personal storage

I have the pagefile set on the small partition (2.5 gigs as noted above) on the beginning of the 2nd drive, while leaving a small PF on the system drive on the 1st partition (2mg min, 50 max). The pagfile size on the 2nd drive is set for 150 min/900max, though with the RAM amount I have, I doubt it will really ever be used). My question is; can I safely turn off System Restore, and the Recycle Bin on the Pagefile partition (E:\) safely, or at least one without complication(s), or are these needed to be running on said location for system purposes?

Thanks,
Tom
 
Tom said:
Hi,

I have 2gigs of PC3200 DDR SDRAM, and two 120 SATA HDDs.

HDD 1 - C:\ 45gig sys. partition, and 2nd partition D:\ Primary (work storage)

HDD 2 - E:\ Primary, 2.5gig partition w/Pagefile located on it, and F:\ Primary 117gig for personal storage

I have the pagefile set on the small partition (2.5 gigs as noted above) on the beginning of the 2nd drive, while leaving a small PF on the system drive on the 1st partition (2mg min, 50 max). The pagfile size on the 2nd drive is set for 150 min/900max, though with the RAM amount I have, I doubt it will really ever be used). My question is; can I safely turn off System Restore, and the Recycle Bin on the Pagefile partition (E:\) safely, or at least one without complication(s), or are these needed to be running on said location for system purposes?

Thanks,
Tom
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Yes you can. System restore should be turned off on the data only
partitions as well. It does nothing for data.
 
Tom said:
I have the pagefile set on the small partition (2.5 gigs as noted above) on the beginning of the 2nd drive, while leaving a small PF on the system drive on the 1st partition (2mg min, 50 max). The pagfile size on the 2nd drive is set for 150 min/900max, though with the RAM amount I have, I doubt it will really ever be used). My question is; can I safely turn off System Restore, and the Recycle Bin on the Pagefile partition (E:\) safely, or at least one without complication(s), or are these needed to be running on said location for system purposes?
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Yes certainly. I would only have Restore in action on the main drive
with System and with Programs; there is no point on having it on ones
with just data, as it does not deal in data files. Recycle Bin you
should of course have on data drives - and will do no harm if you have
it in with the page file for anything else you might use that partition
for.
 
Alex Nichol said:
Yes certainly. I would only have Restore in action on the main drive
with System and with Programs; there is no point on having it on ones
with just data, as it does not deal in data files. Recycle Bin you
should of course have on data drives - and will do no harm if you have
it in with the page file for anything else you might use that partition
for.
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Thanks, Alex and Rock for your help :-).

Tom
 
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