Can I delete pagefile under D: drive?

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:52:34 +0000, oem7110 wrote:

Referring to your suggested approach, should I set virtual memory on another HDD(2) D: drive instead of HDD(1) for C: drive? so I should disable virtual memory on HDD(1) and enable virtual memory on HDD(2).

Since I have used HDD(1) C: drive as virtual memory, which contain pagefile, if I do disable virtual memory on HDD(1) C: drive, can I manually delete pagefile on HDD(1) C: drive in this situation?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Is D: a separate physical drive or is it a second partition on the
same drive as C:?

Putting the Page File on a second partition is not a good idea, and
can hurt your performance. What it does is move the page file to a
location on the hard drive distant from the other frequently-used data
on the drive. The result is that every time Windows needs to use the
page file, the time to get to it and back from it is increased.

Putting the page file on a second physical drive is a good idea,
since it decreases head movement, but not to a second partition on a
single drive. A good rule of thumb is that the page file should be on
the most-used partition of the least-used physical drive. For almost
everyone with a single drive, that's C:.

If you have enough RAM, the penalty for moving the page file to a
second partition may be slight, since you won't use the page file
much, but it won't help you.

Also, the other problem with a separate partition like this is that
you run the risk of making it too small, in which case programs will
fail for lack of virtual memory, or too large, which is wasteful of
disk space. If you leave it on C:, it can expand or contract as
needed.

This article will answer your questions:

http://www.tweakhound.com/2011/10/10/the-windows-7-pagefile-and-running-without-one/

I have set D: drive as a recovery drive before, but it is disable to be recovery drive now.

At this moment, I set C: drive as a recovery drive.

so based the latest date of pagefile, would it be safe to manually delete pagefile under D: drive?

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you very much for any suggestions :>

The benefit of pagefile sys is allowing your computer’s operating system to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually do and run the windows applications smoother.

If you have low memory less than 256mb and turn off or remove your pagefiles or virtual memory, it will be a disaster for your windows and you might feel latency and struggle for multatasking on your windows.

If you have a huge amount of RAM (memory), then turn it off.

D Drive is usually the recovery drive.  I would suggest not to touch it.

Have you moved the paging file from C: drive to D: drive?

You can turn it off on D: Drive

You may run into "Out of Memory" situations; however.