System has no paging file

[Howard Helms]

When booting up Win 2K Professional with SP4, a
message "The system has no paging file, or the paging file
is too small" appears alone on a blue background
repeatedly. Holding down the enter key causes the message
to clear and then to repeat cyclically almost
immediately. The result is that the OS is so occupied
with flashing that message that the system never finishes
booting up to the point that KnowledgeBase Article 259151
can apply, because the Start button never appears. This
problem first appeared when the PC was turned off due to
an attempt to import a corrupted file into Outlook Express
from a 2nd hard drive.

Can anyone suggest how to recover this hard drive?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Can you reach the machine via the network?

 

[MadDog]

-----Original Message-----
When booting up Win 2K Professional with SP4, a
message "The system has no paging file, or the paging file
is too small" appears alone on a blue background
repeatedly. Holding down the enter key causes the message
to clear and then to repeat cyclically almost
immediately. The result is that the OS is so occupied
with flashing that message that the system never finishes
booting up to the point that KnowledgeBase Article 259151
can apply, because the Start button never appears. This
problem first appeared when the PC was turned off due to
an attempt to import a corrupted file into Outlook Express
from a 2nd hard drive.

Can anyone suggest how to recover this hard drive?


.

Boot with a Windows 98 floppy, and run "fdisk /mbr" at the
prompt (without the quotes).

MD

 

[George Hester]

Give permissions on the drive where pagefile.sys resides Full Permissions Everyone.