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Thread ID: 59728	2005-07-11 06:05:00	2 XP O/S on 1 PC - how many page files?	braindead (1685)	Press F1

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371173	2005-07-11 06:05:00	There are 2 XP Home O/S on one of my PCs. If the Page File of one is moved to a different partition than C drive, can the Page File of the other (hidden) O/S occupy the same location as the first? IOW, can one Page File be used by both O/S? Not sure how all that works. Thanks and appreciation. John	braindead (1685)
371174	2005-07-12 02:17:00	An interesting question . If the two OSs were running at the same time (in your multicore processor? -- have to find a use for them :D ) they wouldn't run for long . Anything written to the page file is wanted again . . . and if the contents are changed before being fetched back the results will be fatal . In theory, there should be nothing "left over" in the pagefile after you have shut an OS down, so another OS starting up should be able to use the same file . However, if you use hibernation an OS being woken up to find its pagefile has been altered by another OS while it slept is going to be a very cross bear . Then it's going to crash . Linux experimenters often have one swap partition which they use for all the versions of the OS they use . But that would fall over if the shut down wasn't complete, and there was an attempt to restart a hibernated system . So you'll probably get away with it . Until you forget, and have a crash . ;)	Graham L (2)
371175	2005-07-12 02:34:00	Thanks Graham. In my case I'm only running one OS at a time. The other is hidden by partition Magic's PQBoot. I guess I could set the Page File to delete itself on reboot, though this will slow things down a little. No multicore here (yet) - just a modest Duron chip :)	braindead (1685)
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