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Name: Patrick Date: January 22, 2002 at 21:27:33 Pacific
Comment:
I have Windows 2000 running on one hard drive and Windows XP running on the other drive. I like to have the page file split between two drives, because it is faster. Would it be safe to have both systems share the same two pagefiles? Or would there be some kind of conflict?
Name: Zan Date: January 23, 2002 at 04:19:40 Pacific
Reply:
It is my understanding that there would be a conflict. I had the same problem a whild ago with win 95 and 98. Both OS's told me that the swap file was courupt, and it would rebuild it. It was then fine until I booted the other OS, same thing happend.
I also suggest that you place the swap file on a different partition (if you can that is), it reduces fragmentation on your drive. Or if you have load's of RAM (I have 512MB) you can turn off the swap file all together.
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Response Number 2
Name: Someone Date: March 19, 2002 at 15:21:47 Pacific
Reply:
You probaly could, if you had the "clear pagefile at shutdown" enabled in both environments under security policy.
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