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Pagefile.sys not found....Please Help

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by drohr

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I took the c: drive out of my wife's computer....put it on the secondary ide bus as master....and when I started my ystem it said it wanted to restard because it had finished installing new hardware.....now when I remove the driveand restart..it says my pagefile is gone or too small and it won't login
ike I said...if I yank her drive back out..it'll boot but can't complete the login process it returns an error saying it can't find the page file or it's to small...if I put her drive back in as secondart master it boots...and then I go into the setings and it says the pagefile is on the c: drive
I didn't change drives...I added her drive as secondary master (assume I have no cd) then it booted...gve me the restart message and I rebooted....when I checked the pagefile settings it said the pagefile..all 768megs of it...was on the c: drive...and the drive I added (secondary master) shows up as G:

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by dingleborg

I have had this happen to myself, over 10 times before figuring out what to do. Normally, it'll happen to me when I put a 2nd drive into a laptop for data migration, but one thing holds true: both drives are bootable windows 2000. What it did for some reason is make the page file on the wife's drive the real one, and said 'let's delete the one on the original c drive'. For some reason, on bootup with 2000 if there are 2 bootable partitions, this happens. Have never found a workaround for it. You can re-add it all you want and you'll never be able to log in. There must be a setting on the page file on your c that states it is for another operating system, because even if you add it, it won't work.

It said adding new hardware, because it was really booting from the 2nd drive you added, even though you had a c drive working before. You have to BEFOREHAND put system files in a different folder, maybe take anything having to do with it being an active boot drive.

Your originalc drive is hosed; win2k has to be re-installed. Sorry.

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