[geeks] Greater than 4GB swapfile on XP...

[james]

> Okay this is frustrating the crap out of me here.
> 
> I've got seven engineering workstations running XP Pro SP3
> and two of them can set the swapfile greater than 4096 but
> the others can't.
> 
> WTF is the difference?  I can't seem to find a difference
> in the software load on those machines versus the other
> ones.
> 
> Anybody have a suggestion on how to set these things to
> 8192 fixed? -- 
> Mike Hebel


The FAT's cannot handle more than 4G. You need NTFS
filesystems.