first of all, you should never have a static pagefile...advice to create a static pagefile in xp is absolutely incorrect, and there is no user that will gain benefit from a static setting, and plenty of users that will trun slower becase of it...but that's another thread..
now, I'm not sure my answer is correct, it's just a guess, as to what happened on your hardrive.
first, perfect disc cannot increase the size of the mft zone...what might have happened is once pd layed the mft zone contigously, you first noticed how big it is...that's my best guess, and it's just a guess.
here's what happens;
the boot files will perfom best at the beginning of the disc, as this is the beginning of activity, and this is where the heads begin the day
next, perfect disc puts your other files where they are trying to go in the microsft scheme of file optimization.
it lays most used files side by side, so the seek time is obviously optimized, and it puts these files towards the middle of your data.
it lays seldom used also side by side, for the same reason before the most accessed files.
when pd did this on your drive, of course, your pagefile had to wind up somwhere other then where it started.
now, here's a another common myth I'm about to dispell.
it's been commonly repeated that the beginning of the disc is the most efficient place on a dreive for often accessed files.
the reasooning used, is that the heads start at the beginning of the disc, so that's the best place for a file to be, as seek times should be shorter.
ha...not true at all
true, the heads start at the beginning of the disc, but that is not where the heads are the majority of the time...the heads are in the center of your most often accesd data the majority of the time...this is the reason micrsoft puts the mft zone towards the center of the drive...in this more optimum position, seek time is improved, and there is a 10 to 15% improvment in performance, according to the miscrosoft research.
so, your pagefile is not the most accessed data on your drive, the mft is, then, the majority of hardrive activity will come from your most comonly accessed files, and then the pagefile.
all by the way,is just hypothisizing on my part, (except the part about seek times being optimized in the middle of your data, and not at the beginning of the disc...that part is fact)
