I installed Windows 7 on my WDC USB HDD.I installed diskmod and set the parameters in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\diskmod\Parameters as Paging =1 and Removable=2
Everything is fine and I am able to use Pagefile on my USB HDD itself.
However I wanted the diskmod setting to only affect my USB HDD .So I changed the parameters in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\diskmod\Parameters back to the default value i.e, Paging =2 and Removable=2
Now I went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WD&Prod_3200BEV_External&Rev_1.75\57442D575846314133304D38313838&0\Device Parameters\DiskMod
This key corresponds to my USB HDD. Here when I set the parameters Paging =1 and Removable =2 the page file could not be created on the USB HDD.I tried changing the values of Removable to 0 and 1.But still pagefile refused to be created on USB HDD
Can anybody point out where I am going wrong?
How to install DiskMod 0.0.2.2
1. Extract the archive file in a folder.
2. Right-click diskmod.inf and select "Install" from context menu.
3. Set its parameters in registry.
* key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\diskmod\Parameters
o value "Paging" type REG_DWORD
data 0 = Disable paging, 1 = Enable paging, 2 = Normal (Default)
o value "Removable" type REG_DWORD
data 0 = Fixed media (partitioned), 1 = Removable media, 2 = Normal (Default)
Affect all hard disks and mass storage devices.
* key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\diskmod\Parameters\MBR_12345678
o value "Paging", "Removable"
Affect only devices that have matching MBR signature (or 4-bytes data at offset 0x1B8).
* key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\xxxx\xxxx\Device Parameters\DiskMod
key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SCSI\xxxx\xxxx\Device Parameters\DiskMod
key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\xxxx\xxxx\Device Parameters\DiskMod
(version 0.0.2.2)
o value "Paging", "Removable"
Affect only one installed device.
4. Detach and re-attach disks or restart computer.
Parameters are read when each disk device start.