Windows 10 1809 update + KB4464330 can't set no paging file in System Drive (C:)

Anonymous
2018-10-08T03:44:59+00:00

After I updated Windows 10 Pro 64-bit to the October 2018 version 1809 update. I can't set custom size or no paging file in virtual memory properties in drive C:. By after set custom size or no paging file and restart computer. Has system properties pop up on start up. And pagefile.sys in drive C: still automatically manage paging file size.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-01-08T07:06:19+00:00

    In my case the problem was solved when I disable the Hot plug in the BIOS, in HOT PLUG mode the mechanical hard drive is detected as External Hard Drive so windows 10 1809 do not permit the creation of the pagefile in that drive. apparently it is a new directive in windows 10 1809 because in 1803 it was not necessary to change the information in the BIOS.

    in this post you can follow the instruction for those who don't have this option in the BIOS.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/9lpvwn/paging\_setup\_after\_the\_2018\_october\_update/

    I hope this information helps you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-05T22:32:50+00:00

    I finally found a solution to this problem. As someone already said in this thread, Windows 10 build 1809 doesn't allow to have the paging file on "portable drives" anymore. So if you click on the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon in the system tray and you see the drive that you want to use for the page file there, then Windows will refuse to use it. The problem is that the BIOS on some older motherboards seems to report the internal SATA ports as "external" ports to Windows. There are now two solutions:

    • Deactivate this behavior for the SATA ports in the BIOS (it should be called "hot-swappable", "non-removable" or something like this). However, this seems to only be available on newer mainboards.
    • Tell Windows that the SATA ports are non-removable.

    I had to use the second solution. Here you can find a nice guide:

    https://superuser.com/a/961242

    I'm not sure how to get the number of a specific SATA port, I also used 0 to 5. Maybe it's the SCSI bus under win+r, msinfo32, System Summary, Components, Storage?

    I hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-05T14:57:51+00:00

    No setting in the bios to change the status of the hard drives. In windows  all my drives appears in the menu to be ejected including my SSD (C:). I can set a paging file on C: but not on the others drives.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-03T07:37:45+00:00

    Hello,

    All my drives appears also as removable. I saw nothing in the BIOS to change that, I will re-check.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-01-03T03:37:46+00:00

    1803 allows page file to be created on a removable drive, 1805 doesn't.  If Windows sees your drive being removable whether it is actually removable or not, you will have problem.  It doesn't make sense for Windows to think a system drive is removable though.

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