PN: Moving win2000 from 20GB to 60GB drive

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Peter Nolan

Hi All,
I wonder if anyone out there has ever seen this problem.

I bought a new drive and I am moving my win2000 instance from a 20GB
laptop drive to a 60GB laptop drive. I am using ghost2002 to move the
C drive which has win2000 on it. I also have a D drive on each drive.

Once I do the move and try to log onto a userid on win2000 it issues
the message:

‘Limited Virtual Memory'.
Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small'.

I have tried everything to move an image with a valid paging file. I
have even tried pointing the paging file to my D drive on my old disk
and then installing win2000 on the new disk and pointing the paging
file to the D drive of this drive as well and then restore the ghost
image....but no luck.

If I just install win2000 on this new drive it works fine and creates
a paging file of just 384MB.

Does anyone have any ideas how I might be able to fix this? I'd love
to be able tio just get past this message. Once I click on ok it just
goes back to the logon screen so I cannot get to the desktop to set
the paging file. I have also tried safe recovery but no luck there
either.

Best Regards

Peter Nolan
 
Hi All,
i found the following on the symatec web sit...however I have run
chkdsk /r and the error still occurs. When I check my original 20GB
drive I cannot find my pagefile.sys either. I know it is there because
I can see the change in disk usage when I change the size of it. I
have show hidden files turned on...

Any advice on how to solve this would be most appreciated..

Peter Nolan


This problem sometimes happens when the original file Pagefile.sys is
corrupt. To resolve the problem after cloning, delete the file and
allow Windows to recreate it:
Start the computer into the Windows 2000 Recovery Console. This allows
you to access both NTFS and FAT partitions.
Locate the file Pagefile.sys. By default, the file is located in the
root of the drive on which Windows is installed. If it is not on that
drive, search the root of other drives on the computer.
Delete Pagefile.sys.
Run Check Disk with the /r parameter:

chkdsk /r

Restart the computer. Windows recreates the file.
 
Hi All,
just in case anyone can help. The MSN support topic on this says to go
into the console repair application...copy some file like boot.ini
over pagefile.sys (which is not visible in win2000) and then issue a
'delete pagefile.sys', run a chkdisk /r. I did all this, but still
cannot get my win2000 on my new drive started.

Strangely enough, I installed a 'vanilla' version of win2000 onto
this new drive and went into the console and tried deleting
c:\pagefile.sys and restarting the laptop and it restarted fine. So I
think I am not actually deleting the paegfile.sys on the 60GB drive.

Does anyone know where, other than c drive that pagefile.sys might be?
I figure if I can delete pagefile.sys and then do a chhdsk /r I might
be able to get the new OS to start.

Or, any other suggestions, really welcome!!! This have been 2 days to
not even get my OS transferred from one drive to another.

Best Regards

Peter Nolan
 
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