Windows page file on multiple hard drives

The most relevant information I could find was an article on optimal configuration of the page file under Windows XP.

The article states that Windows will use the page file located on the volume with the least activity. This means that there is no pattern defined.

So, it is arguable that the most likely way that Windows handles multiple page files is by maintaining a table of where each memory page is located. Where a page winds up depends largely on which volume was least active when it got paged out.


In Windows 8.1 for me it totally ignores the second drive and only swap onto the first one.

Not really useful. That's why I got here since I was googling on it.