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W2K Pro. Page File Error

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by m.graft

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< Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small. >It happen exactly when rebooting the system the 2nd or 3rd time after the installation of W2K Pro. If I go to the drive root I could see the paging file is 120MB (80MB virtual memory on the system) of size but when checking that in the system \ advanced tap it indicates to 20MB. I resize it by adding more space and reboot again but the error message appears once again when logging in. I have installed the OS on an NTFS 4GB Partition. When I replaced the paging file on a different volume than the C:\ Root, the error message want appear any more and the problem is solved.

Do you have any clue why this is happening?

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by paulfr2

This is what I would do to correct the problem:

1: Insert your Win2k Setup CDROM Disc and boot up off of it.

2: Perform a recovery and choose "Recovery Console"

3: Choose the Windows 2000 installation to start up from - should say something like C:\Windows or C:\Winnt

4: Run CHKDSK /F

To me it sounds like you have bad sectors and your page file is being stored in one or more of those bad sectors.

If that doesn't work, are you booting off of a Ultra 66 HDD that is connectedto a Ultra 66 PCI Add-in card? If so you could be having problems with the PCI card and I suggest that you update the BIOS on the card. Just for good measure I'd update the BIOS on your computer as well.

Let me know if this works or not.

Thanks,

Paul
paulfr2@home.com

by trichard

Saw a similar problem that was resolved by giving the local 'SYSTEM' group Full Control of the drive that the pagefile was located on.

Good luck!

by m.graft

I solved the problem by doing the following:

1- booted the system with w2k CD.
2- chose to perform a new installation
3- when the system asks which driver you need to select I choose as normal the C drive as a system drive, BUT the only thing Idid differently this time is not choosing to partition the HD but left it as it is and choose format as NTFS.
4- after the installation was completed I had the page file on the same driver without any errors this time.

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