windows 2000 pagefile problem I think....

[James]

Ok here is the the situation. I had a friends pc that was going straight to
a blue screen. I booted up and did a chkdsk and it finally started to boot
up and work great... He wanted me to make a ghost of the drive in case he
ended up having drive problems. So i hooked up a spare drive and booted up
ghost and it told me that the nt log file was not empty or something and it
would not ghost. So i booted up into win200 with both drives plugged in
(which i have done on computers before). It said it added new hardware and
restarted.

This is where the problem starts. The drive that i plugged in was a drive
that had win2000 installed on it also. So it made the spare hdd C:\ and his
origional hdd D:\ but it was still booting of of his hdd even though it was
D:\ cause i could see all of his applications and icons even though they
didnt work cause they were pointing to tehe wrong drive.

I shut down and unplugged the spare drive and booted back up and it gave me
an error that the paging file was too small... Come to find out that it was
looking for the pagefile on the spare hdd... If i boot up with his hdd in it
will login and then log back out.. then when i login it logs me back out
again... I think it is looking for the pagefile but cant find it... If i
plug in the spare hdd then it will login fine.

I even tried to tell win2000 to use 2 different pagefiles one on C and one
on D but that still doesnt work if i unplug the spare drive... If anyone can
help this is driving me crazy...


Thanks,
James

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help.

Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Ok here is the the situation. I had a friends pc that was going straight
to
| a blue screen. I booted up and did a chkdsk and it finally started to boot
| up and work great... He wanted me to make a ghost of the drive in case he
| ended up having drive problems. So i hooked up a spare drive and booted up
| ghost and it told me that the nt log file was not empty or something and
it
| would not ghost. So i booted up into win200 with both drives plugged in
| (which i have done on computers before). It said it added new hardware and
| restarted.
|
| This is where the problem starts. The drive that i plugged in was a drive
| that had win2000 installed on it also. So it made the spare hdd C:\ and
his
| origional hdd D:\ but it was still booting of of his hdd even though it
was
| D:\ cause i could see all of his applications and icons even though they
| didnt work cause they were pointing to tehe wrong drive.
|
| I shut down and unplugged the spare drive and booted back up and it gave
me
| an error that the paging file was too small... Come to find out that it
was
| looking for the pagefile on the spare hdd... If i boot up with his hdd in
it
| will login and then log back out.. then when i login it logs me back out
| again... I think it is looking for the pagefile but cant find it... If i
| plug in the spare hdd then it will login fine.
|
| I even tried to tell win2000 to use 2 different pagefiles one on C and one
| on D but that still doesnt work if i unplug the spare drive... If anyone
can
| help this is driving me crazy...
|
|
| Thanks,
| James
|
|

 

[James]

Hey thanks for the link... I took the advice on the fdisk /mbr and
everything is working great... you are a life saver (or at least a lot of
time saver)... haha thanks again..

Thanks,
James

 

[Dave Patrick]

Glad to hear it helped.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Hey thanks for the link... I took the advice on the fdisk /mbr and
| everything is working great... you are a life saver (or at least a lot of
| time saver)... haha thanks again..
|
| Thanks,
| James

 

[Guest]

Thank you for pointing out the solutions. Using a Win98 bootdisk proved the easiest solution. Had this phenomenon after using a disk cloning utility.