Pagefile creation without booting the OS

G

glibdud

Hi folks. I'm trying to clone my Win2kPro installation to a new hard
drive. It seemed to go well, until I removed the old hard drive from
the system. It starts to boot from the new drive, but when I try to
log in, it complains of the lack of a pagefile, and asks me to change
that. I'd love to, but after that message it just kicks me back to the
login prompt. Same deal in Safe Mode.

So is there any way to configure the virtual memory settings without
booting into the OS? I can boot from the old hard drive still if that
would help. If it could be done from the command prompt I could try
Safe Mode/Command Prompt or a rescue disk.

Any thoughts appreciated.

-David Murphy
 
M

Myweb

Hello glibdud,

Which software did you use for cloning. Ttry to copy the image to external
harddisk, open the image and delete the pagefile from the image. Then install
the image to the new disk. If no pagefile exists, Windows automatically will
built a new one.

Best regards

Myweb
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

glibdud said:
Hi folks. I'm trying to clone my Win2kPro installation to a new hard
drive. It seemed to go well, until I removed the old hard drive from
the system. It starts to boot from the new drive, but when I try to
log in, it complains of the lack of a pagefile, and asks me to change
that. I'd love to, but after that message it just kicks me back to the
login prompt. Same deal in Safe Mode.

So is there any way to configure the virtual memory settings without
booting into the OS? I can boot from the old hard drive still if that
would help. If it could be done from the command prompt I could try
Safe Mode/Command Prompt or a rescue disk.

Any thoughts appreciated.

-David Murphy
Click to expand...

Your problem is actually worse: Your system would have used
drive C: as its system drive before the cloning action. It now
uses a different drive letter. This happened because you ran
Windows 2000 with both disks connected.

The cure depends on your setup:
- Is the machine networked (easy fix)
- Do you have access to another Win2000/XP desktop PC?
- Do you have a Bart PE boot CD?
 
G

glibdud

These two articles may help.

How to Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows 2000http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223188

Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changedhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];249321
Click to expand...

Thanks for the answers guys. And especially thanks for the links,
Dave. That was just the prod I needed. Got the new drive up and
running on its own.

-David Murphy
 

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