My situation is very similar to archived thread96-564690, including how I got there. However, after accepting my login password and before returning to the login screen, the system displays a large error message box:
"Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small."
Then it gives a 3 step procedure on how to fix the problem from within Windows. If at this point I click OK, it thinks for a few seconds and then displays another msg box titled "SAS window: winlogon.exe - No disk":
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk\DR1"
with the buttons "Cancel", "Try again" and "Continue". All of them produce another msg box with the same text but the title "services.exe - no disk". Continuing from here produces the SAS msg box again, in an apparent infinite loop.
I tried to fix the MBR with the emergency console command FIXMBR to no avail. I do not have a bootable W2k disk to try FDISK/MBR as suggested in the mentioned thread.
I have read somewhere in another forum that the SYSTEM permissions for the root directory may have been removed somehow, but have not found a way to access them.
TIA
"Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small."
Then it gives a 3 step procedure on how to fix the problem from within Windows. If at this point I click OK, it thinks for a few seconds and then displays another msg box titled "SAS window: winlogon.exe - No disk":
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk\DR1"
with the buttons "Cancel", "Try again" and "Continue". All of them produce another msg box with the same text but the title "services.exe - no disk". Continuing from here produces the SAS msg box again, in an apparent infinite loop.
I tried to fix the MBR with the emergency console command FIXMBR to no avail. I do not have a bootable W2k disk to try FDISK/MBR as suggested in the mentioned thread.
I have read somewhere in another forum that the SYSTEM permissions for the root directory may have been removed somehow, but have not found a way to access them.
TIA