No Paging File

[John]

I've searched several newsgroups and found several other
people that have this problem, but no solution that works
for my machine.

I've recently received the following error message at
startup:
"your system has no paging file or paging file is too
small"

I have an HP Pavilion with a 1.2 Ghz Athlon, 75GB HD with
24GB free, plus a 50 GB HD with 15 GB free, VIA chipset
with Nvidia graphics, and am running XP Home (upgrade
from ME).

My system was running fine until a week or two ago.

Here's what I've gone through so far based on other's
postings:
1. Manually setting the paging file does not work
(neither through control panel->system, nor through the
registry)- if I set to zero, reboot, then set to specific
amount or let Windows manage and reboot again, the
settings stick, but no pagefile is created.
2. I do not have Intel chipsets, so their application
accelerator isn't an issue
3. I have scanned for viruses.
4. I ran checkdisk, defragged the main HD, reinstalled
the IDE controllers.
5. I booted into safe mode attempted to set page file (in
case some program was affecting setup), but no difference.
6. In addition to resetting values in the registry, I
deleted registry references to TempPageFile, and
searched, but didn't find references to TPkd (per
suggestion to delete it).
7. I Searched for Pagefile.sys (after unhiding sys files)
but didn't find it and even tried the recommendation of
copying an old text file over to the pagefile.sys file
name, then deleting it, but to no avail.
6. As I'm running XP Home, the XP Pro security issues
aren't relevant (I am set up as an adminstrator.
7.I have read about problems with Norton, but I have
Systemworks 2003, and I believe the problems are with the
2004 version - besides, I would think my clean boot
attempt would have resolved that problem.

Any more ideas? It's frustrating - I get set the
settings, but nothing sticks!

 

[Tom Swift]

Perhaps one of these will help:

Error Message: Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too
Small
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315270&Product=winxp

"Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too Small" Error
Message After Windows XP Upgrade
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316528&Product=winxp

Tom Swift

 

[John]

Thanks, but they don't help:

The first one only helps for NTFS drives and I forgot to
mention that this is a FAT32 drive (no security tab).

The second relates to intel chipsets/programs, neither of
which my system has as I mentioned earlier.

Any other thoughts?!

 

[Guest]

I would just like to comment and say that i also have a FAT32 drive and the same problem...

 

[Gerry Cornell]

John

If you move the paging file to an alternative drive you need to keep a small paging file on the default drive. Read here:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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[Guest]

Yes, but I wasn't trying to setup my pagefile on my second drive, the issue is I can't set up a paging file on either drive. If I set everything up to "let windows manage" for instance, the settings "stick" in control panel/system page, yet the change doesn't actually occur. It's as if the setup isn't being allowed to complete once you restart. And based on other posts I've seen (including Matt above) I'm not the only one who can't seem to be able to reinstate their page file. Something is interferring with the setup.

 

[Guest]

I have jumped through every hoop that was suggested and have the same problem as John. My VPR Matrix is about 3 years old and just recently has had the page file problem. What next?