Win 2000 doen't boot because it don't find the swap file

[Guest]

I have make a clone with norton ghost of mi win 2000 pro to a bigger hard
disk but it don't boot. Windows shows the login screen and after that shows a
message telling "Windows don't have a swap file, go to my computer-properties
etc etc and set a swap file ..." but it don't go further. After that windows
shows the login screen again and that in a infinite loop.

Could sombody help me? Y dont want fotmatting and reinstalling all in then
the new disk if it's not neccesary

thanks

 

[ByTor]

I have make a clone with norton ghost of mi win 2000 pro to a bigger hard
disk but it don't boot. Windows shows the login screen and after that shows a
message telling "Windows don't have a swap file, go to my computer-properties
etc etc and set a swap file ..." but it don't go further. After that windows
shows the login screen again and that in a infinite loop.

Could sombody help me? Y dont want fotmatting and reinstalling all in then
the new disk if it's not neccesary

thanks

Boot to safe mode.....you should be able to set it from there.

 

[Guest]

it's the same. On safe mode it do the same booting

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have make a clone with norton ghost of mi win 2000 pro to a bigger hard
disk but it don't boot. Windows shows the login screen and after that shows a
message telling "Windows don't have a swap file, go to my computer-properties
etc etc and set a swap file ..." but it don't go further. After that windows
shows the login screen again and that in a infinite loop.

Could sombody help me? Y dont want fotmatting and reinstalling all in then
the new disk if it's not neccesary

thanks

This is a common problem after cloning hard disks. It occurs
because your drive letters have changed. Windows is now
looking for a swap file on a drive that no longer exists. The
remedy depends on your setup, i.e. if the machine is networked,
or if you have another Win2000/XP machine around, or if you
have a Bart PE boot CD.

 

[Dave Patrick]

These may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q249321

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/EN-US/

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:
|I have make a clone with norton ghost of mi win 2000 pro to a bigger hard
| disk but it don't boot. Windows shows the login screen and after that
shows a
| message telling "Windows don't have a swap file, go to my
computer-properties
| etc etc and set a swap file ..." but it don't go further. After that
windows
| shows the login screen again and that in a infinite loop.
|
| Could sombody help me? Y dont want fotmatting and reinstalling all in then
| the new disk if it's not neccesary
|
| thanks