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Login Looping after ghosting and swapfile problem

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Kaos2800

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Jan 16, 2001
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I ghosted a pretty fresh install of 2000 on a new hard drive I just got, and when it booted up, the automatic login script runs and it would then say that the swap file is to small and needs to be changed. When I clicked on ok, the script runs again, it says saving user settings and the swap file error comes up again. I tried copying a swap file over from another drive hoping it would say that it's corrupted and needs to be fixed, like NT4 would do. But then it gives no error and just loops at the starting network settings and saving user settings. I tried safe mode, vga mode, command prompt mode. Telling 2000 to restore windows 2000. Is there any dos command I can run to stop the login script? Is there any dos command I can use to create a good swapfile? because I think this will fix my problem. I've even tried deleting the swap file. I really would not like to reload all the software I just loaded.

-David
 
Were you able to successfully delete the swapfile, or no?

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