A
Alex Rast
I'm trying to move my installation over to a new, higher-capacity drive. So I:
Put the new drive in as a slave drive on the same IDE channel.
Partitioned the drive using Disk Manager in the old system.
Assigned drive letters to the new partitions
Booted into a second, bare-bones Win2K installation on the old drive.
Copied over the boot partition of the main Win2K installation on the old drive
onto the corresponding partition on the new drive.
Ran Win2K install to create the MBR on the new drive (I didn't install Win2K
itself over the copied Win2K installation.
Here's the problem. The copied Win2K installation boots, but at login it claims
that I have too small of a pagefile and then unceremoniously logs me
immediately out again. Looking at previous threads, the suggestion is that this
is generally caused by not giving system all rights to the %systemroot% drive.
I therefore made very sure to assign it explicit permissions, recopied, and
tried again. Still no luck.
Meanwhile the bare-bones Win2K system on the old drive I also managed to copy
onto the new drive and it boots without problems. So there's something else not
right with the main Win2K copy. Can anyone tell me what else might be wrong?
What do I need to do to get the main copy over successfully and boot?
Reinstalling the operating system is not an option.
Put the new drive in as a slave drive on the same IDE channel.
Partitioned the drive using Disk Manager in the old system.
Assigned drive letters to the new partitions
Booted into a second, bare-bones Win2K installation on the old drive.
Copied over the boot partition of the main Win2K installation on the old drive
onto the corresponding partition on the new drive.
Ran Win2K install to create the MBR on the new drive (I didn't install Win2K
itself over the copied Win2K installation.
Here's the problem. The copied Win2K installation boots, but at login it claims
that I have too small of a pagefile and then unceremoniously logs me
immediately out again. Looking at previous threads, the suggestion is that this
is generally caused by not giving system all rights to the %systemroot% drive.
I therefore made very sure to assign it explicit permissions, recopied, and
tried again. Still no luck.
Meanwhile the bare-bones Win2K system on the old drive I also managed to copy
onto the new drive and it boots without problems. So there's something else not
right with the main Win2K copy. Can anyone tell me what else might be wrong?
What do I need to do to get the main copy over successfully and boot?
Reinstalling the operating system is not an option.