Paging file and extedrnal USB drives

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Howard Kaikow

It seems that one may specify that a paging file can be placed on a USB
external drive.

How does that affect hot swapping USB drives?
Will I be allowed to unplug the drive and replace with another drive?
Or will I have to Shut Down, Replace the drive, then reboot?

Is this documented someplace?
 
Yes you'll want to shutdown, replace the drive, then restart.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| It seems that one may specify that a paging file can be placed on a USB
| external drive.
|
| How does that affect hot swapping USB drives?
| Will I be allowed to unplug the drive and replace with another drive?
| Or will I have to Shut Down, Replace the drive, then reboot?
|
| Is this documented someplace?
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| http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
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|
 
Actually you'll probably want to move it to another fixed drive before
attempting this since the new drive may not be formatted and or assigned the
same drive letter.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
The new drive does have the same drive letter.
Just swapping two 80 GB USB drives.
Each USB drive is used only to back up the hard drives using Dantz
Retrospect.

I rarely use over 20MB of page file and almost never use more than 64MB.
Currently, I have a fixed page file of 64MB on C, variable page file of
64-1152MB on F, and OS is on J.
I want to use that space on F for useful files.

I created the following useful tool for monitoring page file use.

http://www.standards.com/VB/VBCode.html#PageFileUsageMonitor
 
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