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When logging onto a windows 2000 workstation, I get the error message that the file pagefile.sys does not exist. And the system returns me to the login window.
How can I force windows 2000 to point to the pagefile.sys file located on the root of the c-drive from the command counsel?
by geek2d
right click "My Computer" pick Properties
Pick the Advanced Tab
Select Proformance Options
Click the Change Button
Select the drive you want the pagefile on
(best on drive other then system drive, also other controller is best)
Then set the lower and upper limits
Hit the set button then OK and reboot
by tr3837
If the system would have allowed for me to login I would have been able to make the necessary changes to pagefile.sys location as mentioned in answer1. Because the pagefile.sys was pointing to a drive that did not exist the system would not allow login under safemode, normalmode or any other mode. It would return any attempt at login back to the login window, no desktop ever appears.
We corrected the problem by using NET USE \\remote_machine_name\IPC$ /user:administrator*
This allowed us to edit the machine registry and change the location of where the pagefile.sys was pointing, by remote. And in turn we were able to access the system.
by tr3837
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