I'm glad to hear the below is possible, it what I spent weeks trying to achieve, but finally found impossible on a Dell; the BIOS simply will not allow it. By having SCSI as boot and IDE as storage, you get the best of both worlds and cheaper than buying firewire drives!
Dear Nick
What you say does not surprise me!....this fits with what I have heard of that company, one reason why I would not wish to buy their boxes! There was a time when you were locked into buying their inflated price ram.
Richard, you correct in that it is recommended to have that amount of PF space; you can actually have less especially if you have stacks of RAM, but you are still utilising a disk, so the faster the better. Even with my PF (VM for Mac users) allocated entirely to another disk, I still find that Windows is utilising the boot disk for some swapping, hence the disadvantage of using an IDE drive for booting.
The later fits with what I find, however just to clarify, are you saying it's OK to allocate a smaller amount of Paging file space than the ram plus 12 minimum advocated by M Soft in situations were you have a large amount of ram?....Actually I allocate a lot more as I've always understand this is the minimum, and set minimum and maximum to the same figure. I am talking Win2K here.
Cheers
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