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I was battling this issue on and off randomly over the last year, I'd dig into it again and give up as I couldn't ever resolve it, all searches would just lead to people throwing in reasons to keep it as system managed, or you need better hardware. Found another user having the exact same issue however the thread is locked now and I've finally found the solution. ( How to move pagefile to another disk? (Windows keeps using C: disk instead of another) )
My intention was to move a page file from a System disk to another.
This configuration simply doesn't work. Windows keeps ignoring the pagefile on D:\ or Z:\ or whatever disk I set. Even setting a small pagefile on C:\ and a large on another disk it will not use it.
If I try to set a "no paging file" on disk C, after restarting, Windows creates a paging file on C:\ and reports that it created a temporary page file. Checking the reported value under Virtual memory > Total paging file size for all drives it ignores any other pagefiles set. Sometimes the Windows even doesn't create a pagefile on a specified disk (I have checked it when unticked "hide protected operating system files".)
No matter what you do it keeps creating a temporary page file on C:\ the solution to this is if you have enabled Bitlocker Drive Encryption it creates and enables the registry key "PagefileOnOsVolume" and set it to enabled. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...n-bde-enables-the-pagefileonosvolume-registry
Even if you disable bitlocker and decrypt the drives this registry key stays set as enabled bypassing any attempts to move the page file to another partition / drive. If you set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagefileOnOsVolume to 0 then reboot you will be able to set your page file to none on your OS drive and move it properly to another partition / hd.
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My intention was to move a page file from a System disk to another.
This configuration simply doesn't work. Windows keeps ignoring the pagefile on D:\ or Z:\ or whatever disk I set. Even setting a small pagefile on C:\ and a large on another disk it will not use it.
If I try to set a "no paging file" on disk C, after restarting, Windows creates a paging file on C:\ and reports that it created a temporary page file. Checking the reported value under Virtual memory > Total paging file size for all drives it ignores any other pagefiles set. Sometimes the Windows even doesn't create a pagefile on a specified disk (I have checked it when unticked "hide protected operating system files".)
No matter what you do it keeps creating a temporary page file on C:\ the solution to this is if you have enabled Bitlocker Drive Encryption it creates and enables the registry key "PagefileOnOsVolume" and set it to enabled. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...n-bde-enables-the-pagefileonosvolume-registry
Even if you disable bitlocker and decrypt the drives this registry key stays set as enabled bypassing any attempts to move the page file to another partition / drive. If you set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagefileOnOsVolume to 0 then reboot you will be able to set your page file to none on your OS drive and move it properly to another partition / hd.
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