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Thundersnow

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I hope you guys can help me with this.

I have a 250GB Samsung Evo ssd. I have windows and games etc installed on it. Now for some reason the drive has 20GB less space than advertised, so i want to move the pagefile from my SSD to my HDD.

In my pagefile settings it says the pagefile is on the HDD, the min and max are both the same and are set to the amount of ram I have. It literally says the pagefile is on my HDD and not on my ssd.

Each time I start up my laptop however, i get an error from windows telling me that there was an error with my pagefile settings and that it has created a temporary pagefile (which it creates on the ssd)

I really have no idea what to do here as my settings are correct.

I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this. It's a very frustrating issue and a well deserved f*ck you to the guys who created Windows 7 lol.
 
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You should have about 232GB of actual space on a 250GB advertised size drive. Then of course you have to subtract the hibernation file (unless disabled through a command prompt command that deletes the file) and the restore points if they are turned on.

Your move of the paging file off the SSD is good and should not cause an issue. Just double check the settings in the system control panel, advanced system settings, advanced tab, settings button by performance, advanced tab, change button next to virtual memory, highlight the OS SSD and insure that the radio button is set to no paging file and it says none and highlight the HDD and check that it has the custom size with the same upper and lower limit.

If you already have this set...
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You should have about 232GB of actual space on a 250GB advertised size drive. Then of course you have to subtract the hibernation file (unless disabled through a command prompt command that deletes the file) and the restore points if they are turned on.

Your move of the paging file off the SSD is good and should not cause an issue. Just double check the settings in the system control panel, advanced system settings, advanced tab, settings button by performance, advanced tab, change button next to virtual memory, highlight the OS SSD and insure that the radio button is set to no paging file and it says none and highlight the HDD and check that it has the custom size with the same upper and lower limit.

If you already have this set up correctly (and it sounds like you do), try disabling the paging file on the HDD also. You do not need one if you have enough memory and I do not use one at all. It sucks when things are correct and don't work properly. How much memory do you have installed?
 
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