I formatted a new hdd with win xp professional.

[Agozer]

Windows 95 can't handle FAT32 too well, it does handle it, but poorly (at least OSR2 does). FAT32 was for Windows 98.

[Robert]

I have to disagree with you.

 

FAT32 was released in 1996, for win95. Not the very first win95 release though.

 

I've got FAT32 on my win95 box since I bought it back then, and it's always worked perfectly.

 

When I did a win95 course, FAT32 was explained to us, and Win98 had not seen the light of day at that time. I still have the course materials.

Edited April 25, 2005 by robbbert

[Agozer]

Well, on my old computer, I once did a Windows 98 install and switched to FAT32. I wasn't satisfied with what I got, so I reverted back to Windows 95 (OSR2) by completely formatting the HDD. So, during the first boot, I get a message stating "Could not initialize drive C:", but it booted Windows fine despite this. Long story short, Windows totally forgot that LFN exists, so I had to manually rename every single folder that had more than 8 letters. Everything was fine after that though.

[Elazul Yagami]

how do you do the whole pagefile partition thing, and why should i make a page file?

[Robert]

Cinder made a partition for his pagefile for his own reasons. I wouldn't bother, just leave it on your C drive. On my win95 pc, the defragger even defrags the page file.

 

You don't have to make a pagefile, you can let windows manage it for you. I decided to set mine to 800mb on the win95 pc because it does a lot of work.

 

On this machine I just use the internet so the pagefile is only 100mb. There is 512mb of ram which is heaps.

 

The purpose of the pagefile is to be an extension of your ram. If you ran out of memory your system could crash; so windows uses some hard drive space as extra "memory". It swaps out unneeded running programs to the pagefile so it can work on whatever you are doing now.

 

To set it up, go your control panel, system, advanced, performance options, and you can set the min and max sizes. Depending on your ram and what you use the pc for, choose something between 300mb and 1024mb.

 

If you're using the computer some time, and you get a message saying that windows needs to increase the page file size, you'll know you didn't give it enough.

[Elazul Yagami]

so considering i do alot of graphics work, i guess that i should increase it's size... i dunno what size it's currently at...

but at any given moment i'm usually doing graphics editing, AND like a zillion other programs are running tasks.

[Gryph]

The more memory intensive stuff you do, the larger pagefile the better. But a large pagefile should never be a substitute for RAM. It's more important to have more RAM.

[Elazul Yagami]

i have 512

 

i guess i should update.

[Robert]

Sounds like you should get at least 1 gig of ram. Ram is always much better than a pagefile.

 

When you are in the control panel to adjust the size, the current size is displayed.