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by underspell

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Using a win2k OS after log-in, i encounterd this error "YOUR SYSTEM HAS NO PAGING FILE, PAGING FILE IS TOOO SMALL". I followed the instructions like going to my computer go to advanced settingsand try to increase bala bla bla....bla...I even tried to boot in safe mode, vga safe mode but i still encounterd the same problem. my Pc kept of prompting these problem every time i logged in. what should i do to troubleshoot it

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by hansenkb

Have you checked to make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive for the page file? A good guideline is to have twice the system RAM plus 150MB free on the hard drive. So if you have 256MB RAM, clear about 306MB on the hard drive.

by underspell

i tried it by swapping the hardisk to a known good pc with a win2k os that has no problem and as same as the harddisk capacity.what i want to know is, how can i increase the page file of my hardisk

by rabbit_runner

We encountered a similar problem here. The pagefile had become corrupt (go figure). anyway, the only way we could preserve the machine was to start a re-install. then select 'repair'. this allowed us to re-create the pagefile for the OS. after that was completed, we were able to set the pagefile to our specifications.

Hope this helps.

by opatzg9

I like answer 2, answer 1 seems math challenged or he has a pentium 60 with a bad math co-processer.
256X2 +150 = 512 +150 = 662 not 302. Otherwise, his formula for page size sounds good to me.
Good luck

by opatzg9

And it looks like I'm number challenged as well in 306 not 302. So much for that math degree!

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