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Article gives misleading advice

Sep 10 2009, 1:38 PM EDT by Anonymous

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XP does not allow page files to be created on removable drives. This applies to USB flash drives also.
Although the dialogue appears to allow you to set up a page file on a removable device, that setting is ignored by XP (presumably because it sets up the page file BEFORE it sets up the USB-atached removable devices)

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Dangerous procedure

May 21 2008, 2:45 AM EDT by Anonymous

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Unlike ReadyBoost, which allows you to remove the flash drive at any time without causing any errors, this procedure allows Windows XP to page out *active program data* to the flash drive, which means that sudden removal of the flash drive will likely cause a system crash or BSOD.

Furthermore, flash media have a fixed number of write cycles that ReadyBoost attempts to take into consideration. XP will not take this into consideration, and the heavy disk activity from paging operations may wear out the flash media sooner.

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pagefile.sys not on memory stick

Apr 14 2008, 9:32 PM EDT by Anonymous

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ant thoughts?

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RE: pagefile.sys not on memory stick
By: Posted Anonymously, Apr 14 2008, 9:32 PM EDT

try rebooting. i set mine to 4096 on an external hard drive running at 7200 rpm. any thoughts?

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?Question?

Mar 15 2008, 4:48 AM EDT by Anonymous

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Followed your post, and it doesn't seem to be taking... I set my page file to the Memory Stick port with an initial size = 768, and a maximum size = 768. The currently allocated value still = 753 MB.
And there has not been a pagefile.sys created on the memory stick, it is still on the C:\ drive.....
Any thoughts on this????

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No support for removable drives
By: Posted Anonymously, Mar 15 2008, 4:48 AM EDT

XP does not allow page files to be created on removable drives. This applies to USB flash drives also.

Have personally tried this with a CF card and a Thumbdrive. no amount of coaxing got my copy of XP SP2 to create a pagefile in the external drives.

I presume some smart regediting would be able to solve it but that's kind of out of my league

For those claiming otherwise please post a screenshot...(errr..on second though nevermind even i can create a file called pagefile.sys in the thumbdrive and set is as system attribute)

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