New HD with Ghosted OP sys reporting not enough virtual memory? Help!

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Hi All,

I have a windows 2000 pc.
I have bought and installed a 400gig HD (SATA) to act as the new primary drive and the old HD will be used for storage.

I have used Nortons Ghost to copy the drive partitions from the old HD to the new HD including the boot partition.

I only have the windows OP sys on the C: all other data is stored on additional partitions.

I disconnected the old drive and booted the machine to ensure the swap had been successful.

The new HD boots no probs and Windows loads.

When I try and log in the PC reports that there is not enough virtual memory or no paging file system and then the login screen reappears.

I can not get into the windows desktop to make changes to the virtual file system.

I have re attached the old HD and from that I have viewed the data on the new drive. It does have the pagefile.sys so I don’t understand why I am getting the message.

Any ideas?
 
Sounds like its just got its nickers in a twist.

Boot into safe mode.

right hand click on my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> then go to the settings under the performance section. You should see an advanced section or soemthing to do with virtual memory. Set it to let windows manage it and reboot. Should do the trick.
 
JonRohan said:
Sounds like its just got its nickers in a twist.

Boot into safe mode.

right hand click on my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> then go to the settings under the performance section. You should see an advanced section or soemthing to do with virtual memory. Set it to let windows manage it and reboot. Should do the trick.
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I have tried booting in safe mode but for some reason it is not responding to my keyboard specifically at the load sequence. The keyboard responds to access bios and once windows has booted but not at the loadscreen that says hit 'F8'

Its a saitek eclipse usb keyboard
 
james_blonde007 said:
I have tried booting in safe mode but for some reason it is not responding to my keyboard specifically at the load sequence. The keyboard responds to access bios and once windows has booted but not at the loadscreen that says hit 'F8'

Its a saitek eclipse usb keyboard
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Ener the BIOS and turn on support for the USB keyboard in DOS.
 
I forgot that last week my bios borked out (total outta the blue on off thing) and it had reset itself to default settings.

I have now enabled the USB keyboard and i can boot in safe mode.

Same problem occurs though. i can log in but before the desktop appears the error occurs and once ok'd the login screen reappears.

darn.
 
any way you can just boot to command prompt and delete the pagefile.sys this will then be re-created when you boot back into windows.
 
Deleting the Pagefile.sys did not work.
The error message say's the pagefile.sys is either to small or does not exist. it does not try and recreate a new one.

Anyone else got any ideas?
I am not planning on doing a full install from scratch.
(there are NO obvious problems with my OS, its clean as a whistle)

PS ODDJOB, trying your thing now.
 
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TY ODD JOB!!

oddjob62 said:
According to this an FDISK /FIXMBR may help
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FANTASTIC! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ODDJOB62 !!! :D :D

That link to the solution was super.
I ran the Win98 disk and performed the command

FDISK /MBR

it overwrote the current MBR and bam! back in business.
Whoo hoo, nice one. Very happy now, roll on extra HD space and backups!

Boooo to Nortons Ghost for not making this clear as part of the copy facility.

Capt 'D', i had checked where the pagefile.sys was. It was sitting as expected on the default location. C: TY anyway.
 
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