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Re: Swap file problem
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 09:15:12 PM »
Yes, I used "Mount at boot time", not at logon option. Before motherboard replacement I used version 2.12.03 without this problem. I downloaded the newest version now but it didn't help. Then I decrypted E: which solved the problem like I expected, and after re-encrypting the problem returned. My new mobo is Asus P5Q Deluxe and hard drives are both SATA ones, and AHCI mode is disabled.

I had an old IDE hard drive in my drawer, so I made fresh XP install to it for testing, and then I installed only the Intel chipset drivers, Nvidia display drivers and newest BCVE to it. I made two partitions and encrypted both and set the swap to D: and rebooted - the swap placement worked! I think there may have gone something wrong when I installed XP after mobo replacing.

Now I will put this issue to hold, until I get a new ssd drive. Then I will do one more reinstall of XP and will pay closer attention to this issue, before installing any other programs. I'll tell then what happened. Thanks for your replies.

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Re: Swap file problem
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 06:49:33 AM »
The effect has not been reproduced with this option OFF.
Could you please report what version of BCVE you are running?

Also, are you sure that you enabled the option "Mount at Boot time" for the volume E:?
Or is it "Mount at logon" option? Certainly, it won't work with mount at logon.
Please confirm this exactly.

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Re: Swap file problem
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 07:42:34 PM »
I checked that "Hide drive letter for not mounted volumes" and it was already disabled. I also tried to encrypt the swap file by CryptoSwap to see if it makes any difference (although CryptoSwap is not needed when the drive is encrypted by BCVE?), but no help from that either. I'd like to keep the swap file in another drive for performance reasons. I'm also planning to purchase an SSD drive and I've understood that keeping the swap on such drive isn't very good idea.

However, there's also the option to completely disable the swap file on all drives. 2 gigs of RAM is quite nice for XP, and this seems to run just fine without swap.

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Re: Swap file problem
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2009, 12:02:55 PM »
According to our tests, it happens when the option "Hide drive letter for not mounted volumes" is enabled.
Please try disabling this option - and the swap file will be created on E: drive without a problem.

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Swap file problem
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2009, 10:58:13 AM »
I got new motherboard and reinstalled Windows XP and of course BCVE. All partitions are encrypted and automatically mounted at startup. I have set the swap file to E: which is on another physical hard drive than C:, but after rebooting Windows stubbornly creates a swap file to C: and uses it. E:\pagefile.sys can be deleted, so it's not in use. In Virtual Memory settings, it has been set that only E: has a pagefile, but still it is created to C: after reboot.

Could that have been caused by BCVE? I mean, if Windows tries to read E:\pagefile.sys very early at boot, before BCVE has mounted all drives, and when Windows can't find E: drive it creates new swap file to C: ? Is there any workarounds or other ideas about that? I hadn't this problem before motherboard replacement. TIA
 

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