Two swap files on one drive?

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andy_mc (Posted 2011) [#1]

I've got my laptop dual booting Windows 7 and Windows XP I have an external Sata drive which I run Windows XP on and then run windows 7 on the internal SSD drive. I want to move the XP swap file onto the SSD drive, but it complains there's already a swap file there (this is the windows 7 swap file). How can I make it to have two swap files on the same drive? Moving my Windows XP swap file to the SSD drive should speed it up.

JazzieB (Posted 2011) [#2]

Not sure if you can have two on the same drive/partition. I have XP and Vista and created a separate partition for each solely for a swap file. You may have to do the same.

xlsior (Posted 2011) [#3]

I don't think there is a way to store pagefile.sys anywhere else than the root folder of a drive - but is a workaround to share the drive anyway: You can resize your existing paritition on your SSD to something slightly smaller, and create a second partition on the remaining space to use for the other swapfile. (You may be able to do that straight from the windows 7 partition manager, depending on the partition type, or otherwise through a 3rd party program like partition manager) You can have windows 7 put its swap file on the C:\ drive as it currently is, and have windows XP put its swap file on your newly created secondary partition on the SSD (D:, E:, F:, whatever drive letter it assigned there)