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Serial-ATA

The beauty of Serial-ATA is that each device is given its own channel. This completely circumvents the issues that Parallel-ATA drives have with sharing the same IDE channel.

So, if you are only using Serial-ATA devices, you can immediately move the paging file to the second hard disk for a big speed boost. Just make sure you move it to a partition that is on the second hard disk, not the second partition in your first hard disk.

How Do I Move The Paging File In Windows 9x?

If you want to move your paging file to a different partition or drive, first open up System Properties, either through the Control Panel or by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties.

Once in System Properties, click on the Performance tab and you will see the following picture :-

Right at the bottom, you'll see a Virtual Memory... button. Click on it to get the following screen :-

Select Let me specify my own virtual memory settings. This allows you to choose the logical drive in which you would like to place the paging file.

Click on the pull-down list. It will show you all the available partitions and hard disks in your system. Select the logical drive where you want the paging file to be.

Then set the minimum and maximum paging file sizes and click OK. After rebooting, your paging file will be established in the logical drive you selected.

Again, please remember that each logical drive represents a partition, not a physical drive. So, if you want to move your paging file to a separate hard disk, select a logical drive that resides on that hard disk. Preferably, it should be the first partition in the other hard disk (which should be on its own IDE channel).