Reserved Space (W2K)

[crackerken]

I was wondering if there is a way to change the default space reserved by windows for system use? I have created an extra partition on my hard drive that is used soley for the swap file. I have changed the virtual memory settings to reflect this. Drive C has 0 megs alotted to it, while drive D (partition) has just under a Gig alotted to it for swap file use. Howerver, I notice in my defrag utility that windows still reserves space on my C drive for swap file use (I am guessing...) even though it is set to not use my C drive for swap. It reserves a rather large portion of the front of my C drive for this and I cannot figure out how to disable it or change it's size other than in the performance options.

[mysterywolf]

its to do with space for crash dump file...but you needn't have one!! try reading Q197379 technet.

[crackerken]

I have read the guide at your suggestion, but it suggests to do what I have done already. That is how my system is set up. I was curious if there was a way to tell windows to NOT reserve space on my C drive. I have told it to use 0 megs in the performance options, but it still reserves space as if it was going to use it...even though it does not. Thank you for your replying to me though. I hope someone will have another suggestion.

[mysterywolf]

i don't think setting it for 0mb is the way to do it. why not delete any min and max values completely for c: and SET. ?
if you have configured for no memdump file on crash then any pagefile on c: might be a leftover which needs deleting manually.

but I think any compression, drive overlay, boot/partition manager etc etc can have an impact as well!.