Windows 10: Pagefile cannot be moved to non-system drive

Discus and support Pagefile cannot be moved to non-system drive in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Hi,I'm facing a rather weird issue with Windows 10 Pro 21H1 19043.1151: apparently, it refuses to allocate the pagefile on any drive but C.I'm using a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Zalán Meggyesi, Aug 6, 2021.

  1. ZALáN MEGGYESI
    Zalán Meggyesi Win User

    Pagefile cannot be moved to non-system drive


    Hi,I'm facing a rather weird issue with Windows 10 Pro 21H1 19043.1151: apparently, it refuses to allocate the pagefile on any drive but C.I'm using a custom-built configuration that includes a 240 GiB scratch disk in addition to 32 GiB of physical memory. Said scratch disk is partitioned into two equal parts, with one of them being intended to be occupied by the Windows pagefile. However, despite me setting a system-managed pagefile for the drive, or setting it to a specific size, after a reboot, the pagefile is gone from the scratch disk, and only the nominal pagefile I left on the system pa

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    Zalán Meggyesi, Aug 6, 2021
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  2. DAN_127
    Dan_127 Win User

    Move Pagefile and still retain some on primary drive

    Hi,

    I run win10 with 16GB RAM (thinking of getting 32GB soon).

    My operating system is on a 512GB SSD.

    I read that I may benefit by moving the pagefile to a non system drive and since I have 2 more SSDs I want to know if it is advisable to move the page file to a non system (SSD) drive?

    I know how to do that, however, I also read that even if you move the pagefile to a non system drive it is still advisable to keep "some" on the system drive.

    Is this true? If moving the page file to another SSD advisable, do I need to still keep "some" on the primary drive and if yes how much and how do I that?

    Thanks,
     
    Dan_127, Aug 6, 2021
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  3. GREGYURKON
    gregyurkon Win User
    Clear Pagefile on Shutdown


    I've been looking into clearing the pagefile, and I found the following steps at a somewhat dated webpage:
    1. In the registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
    2. Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown to the REG_DWORD value of 1.
    3. Restart Windows.
    I'm just wondering whether those steps are still valid, and, if so, does clearing the pagefile work as advertised?
     
    gregyurkon, Aug 6, 2021
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  4. EIDAIRAMAN1
    eidairaman1 Win User

    Pagefile cannot be moved to non-system drive

    How to move pagefile for adaquate shrink

    windows wont allow you to dedicate 20 gigs, maximum paging is 4 gigs for windows XP, now id suggest you also put up the rest for the other drives you have (possibility a performance increase)
     
    eidairaman1, Aug 6, 2021
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