HI everybody, I'm new to this forum!

Every time I start my computer, the checkdisk scans my D and E drive which are not my system drive. No matter how many times I've completed the scan but it comes again and again. I need help to get rid of this problem.

Regards,
Atish.

And can you please tell me how can I reduce my page file....I have Windows XP and 512 MB of Ram.

What are drives D and E? Generally speaking, checkdisk only runs when you shut down abnormally (say, after the computer locks up) or if you configure the system to do it. It could be trying to tell you that there are disk problems you need to look at: missing/broken links, lost clusters, etc.

Your page file settings can be changed in the System Properties menu. Right click on "My Computer" or use Control Panel to get to System Properties. Choose the "Advanced" tab -> "Performance" -> "Advance". At the bottom of the window is the "Virtual Memory" area where you can change the swap file settings. However, generally speaking Windows does a good job nowadays of deciding how much virtual memory you need. If you find yourself running out of RAM, then buy more memory; relying on the swap file really hurts your performance since the HD is a lot slower than RAM.

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D drive contains the games while E drive is for the softwares installed.And how can i find about the missing/broken links, lost clusters, etc.

My virtual memory settings is set as recommended by the OS, but usually the pagefile is above 300mb at the time of startup.

Unless you run chkdsk manually, I believe it will automatically scan all drives connected to your system. As long as it's not finding any errors, then you really don't have much to worry about.

It is unusual that it does it on it's own so you might want to run Scandisk or chkdsk -f (I believe those are the correct commands) at the command prompt, if given the option. You should also run them within Windows under the Accessories -> System Tools menu.

Your swap file is typically 1.5 times the size of your RAM, though with Windows it's dynamically adjusted based on what you're doing. As such, it apparently feels that you only need 300MB of "spill area" on boot up. Unless your performance is suffering drastically, I wouldn't worry about it.

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