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Setting up the Swap drive for PS in Windows

2004-11-23 by Steven Karafyllakis

Ever since PSCS became available and I started working in 16-bit, 
I've had this annoying problem with Win XP when editing large files: 
I have been getting frequent "you are running out of space on swap 
drive D" notices, this in spite of the fact that at one point I had 
a total of 16 GB of swap drives in various configurarions allocated 
to PS. Checking into it I found that only the first two were being 
used, the maximumum file size in either one was 3.99 GB, and the 
notices started as soon as the first partition got to that file 
size. 

I'm sure the more experienced list members recognize the problem, 
but for the sake of Windows newbies, now that I've finally found the 
answer, I'd like to pass it on.

It turns out that the Windows FAT 32 file system won't allow files 
of over 3.99GB, in spite of the fact that it does support really 
large drives. The Windows help utility describes how to use the 
Command Prompt interface to change the swap drive file structure to 
NTFS, which does not have that limitation. 

I haven't seen that pesky notice once since I did the change-over 
yesterday. Yay!

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