goldfinger00752
IS-IT--Management
It seems that if a second drive is added to a Windows 2000 Professional workstation and then removed the system will not allow you to logon. It gets to the logon screen and when you try to logon on it gives the message that the Pagefile is too small or size zero or does not exist. You click OK, the only choice, and you are back on the logon screen and this is how it goes back and forth. The message advices how to increase the pagefile, but do you do that if you cannot get even logon to the system.
I have encountered this problem twice. Once when I tried to ghost one drive to another. The original gave the message above. (The target gave the error that the partition was invalid). Adding back the second drive and the system booted fine. The setting for Virtual memory was all OK and on Drive C. But soon as the second drive was removed the system reverted to the error condition. Adding a system drive that has failed as a second drive on a another system has been a very convenient way for me to access and retrieved the data on it before I rebuild it. That method has never failed me until Windows 2000.
I have encountered this problem twice. Once when I tried to ghost one drive to another. The original gave the message above. (The target gave the error that the partition was invalid). Adding back the second drive and the system booted fine. The setting for Virtual memory was all OK and on Drive C. But soon as the second drive was removed the system reverted to the error condition. Adding a system drive that has failed as a second drive on a another system has been a very convenient way for me to access and retrieved the data on it before I rebuild it. That method has never failed me until Windows 2000.