missing page file

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Michael Hickey

my processor went bad, so I bought and installed a faster
one. When I booted up I got a missing page file error.
Windows does not finish loading, this is the same in safe
mode as well. Help.
 
Please state exactly how far your boot process gets,
and what error message (verbatim!) you see.
 
after the bios it goes to the black windows 2000 load
screen, then the white windows boot screen then it goes
blue and pops up windows is starting, then it says
applying personal settings, the it says windows is logging
on, then it says again applying personal settings then I
get the message "you system has no paging file or the
paging file is too small. 1) right click my computer,
click properties, click the advanced tab. 2) click on the
performance options button and then on the change button.
under drive, "volume label" select the drive you want. 3)
to create a new paging file, click the initial size (MB)
box, and then type the paging file size OR to increase the
paging file size, click the maximum paging file size(MB)
box, and then type the larger paging file size. when you
have finished, click set, and then click ok."
 
Use the windows 2000 cd to boot and choose the repair
option...

Sasha Sandow
Q Logic, Ltd.
 
Sounds like you have run out of space on drive C:. How much
free space do you have left?
 
Actually, I'm having the same issue on a PC here at work
and I *know* it's not related to HD space.

My own situation had this occur after I had installed a
2nd HD into the PC to test it(the disk). After I removed
it and reset the jumpers on the original HD I started
receiving this error and have not been able to do anything
since.

I'm currently looking into just re-ghosting the machine,
but a solution to this error would come in handy in
knowing how to fix it in the future.
 
Your problem is easily solved:

- Get a spare disk of at least 1 GByte in size.
- Create a formatted FAT32 partition on it.
- Temporarily install it as a slave disk.

This will give you the breathing space you need to
set the desired location for your paging file.
 
I put the 2nd HD back into the machine and it booted
fine. When I went in to Disk Management, it made the
slave drive the C: drive(with paging file) and the master
was the E: drive with the system partition listed there.
I decided to leave that alone figuring when that slave
drive was removed that the master would get renamed to C:
again.

While I was able to logon, I went and set the pagine file
to the E: drive and wiped out the paging file allocation
to the C: drive. I then shutdown, removed the slave
drive, and restarted. Now I'm back where I was except I
no longer get any error messages, just get sent back to
the ctrl-alt-del screen after logging on.

I then went back, put the slave drive in, etc etc etc, set
the paging file to be on both the E: and C: drives, shut
down, removed the slave, rebooted, and get the same
occurance(sent back to login after login looked
successful).


I'm stumped....
 
As far as I can see you've just re-created the same problem you
originally had.

You should have left the drive letters alone and simply changed the page
file to C: then removed the slave and rebooted.

-Steve
 
Actually, i never touched the drive letters, just edited
the page file assignments to their corresponding drive
letters. 1st I took away the page file from the C: drive
and assigned the same values to the E: drive(the master
HD). When that didn't work, I went back in and used the
same page file assignments for both HDs.

In all likelihood I'm just going to Ghost the machine
tomorrow morning anyways, but was just hoping for some
help in resolving things.
 
I can't figure out how the system renamed your system drive "C" to "E".
Maybe you ended up slaving the wrong drive.

John
 
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