No Page File, can't login to create one #2 1

[mario51t]

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

 

[Curiousintel]

The easiest way I've found of fixing this is to put the hard disk into another computer as a slave drive and set up a paging file in control panel, system, advanced, performance settings tab, advanced tab, virtual settings, change the paging file for the slave drive to system managed size, then set and ok.

Good luck