pagefile

I have read somewhere that in the case of having two harddrives, PageFile should be on the one where windows is not present. My scenario is that I have got one SATA 7200 80gb and one IDE 7200 40gb. The OS(WinXP-pro) lies on the SATA. I use the IDE drive only for media files. I have 1gb of RAM...

What is pagefile usage in task manager?

I came to know that using a seprate partition for Pagefile speeds up the system. I have a 2.4 Ghz PIV with 512 Mb Ddr RAM, Samsung 120 GB primary and Seagate 80 GB secondary drive. Now where should i create my partition for keeping Pagefile in it. Also what should be the partition size and...

OK when i started My PC to chk any new Posts ..suddenly the Electricity went out thx to UPS no damage was made to the system ...then after 3 Hrs when elctricity was restored i started the sys ..and enterd my Login details....and Whoosssshhh ...a BSOD saying some thing bout Non Pagefile...