At work, we've used NT4.0 Workstation on this machine with a 2 GB C: drive for about three years. We've also recently installed a second 10 GB drive as slave (D:). After installing Diskeeper Lite (hey, this is for work. I'm not gonna pay for the full edition out of my own pocket) it showed the original drive was horribly fragmented, including the pagefile! As per the help instructions for defragmenting the pagefile, I moved the pagefile to the second hard drive, then began defragging this mess. I go it down to only 1% fragmented. Pretty good. But the available free space would never consolidate into a single block. I made a new, permanent-size pagefile on C: and rebooted. But since the free space would never consolidate, the new page file just dropped itself into all the little open spaces, actually becoming more fragmented than before. Any suggestions?

A quick way to REALLY Defragment your C Drive is to move EVERYTHING to your D drive ( which sounds like you have more than enough room to do ) and then move it back. By doing that, you are essentially forcing the computer to defragment the drive , and store it all in one big block. Also, if your pagefile is on your D drive, you might notice a slight increase in performance, but you must realize that if your system crashes, it will NOT be able to write debugging info in the file specified (check this by right clicking on the My Computer Icon). Hope this helped Pablo

Try downloading the trialware version of diskkeeper. I had a problem with consolidating free space on server drives, e-mailed tech support for over a week trying to get DkLite to sort it out. Eventually they suggested using the trialware (which is a fully functional 30 day limited version of the full diskeeper software). Cleared the whole thing up on the first run through. Plus you can schedule reboots when you are away to let it defrag directories as well which DkLite can't do.

Hi guys, Thanks for the replies. Mart, good idea. I might try the trialware version. Pablo, a question. You say better performance with the swapfile on D:. Even if it's a slave drive on the same IDE channel?