Re: System has no paging file

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:07:02 -0500

Give permissions on the drive where pagefile.sys resides Full Permissions Everyone. 

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George Hester
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"Howard Helms" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:65b601c40563$094b5690$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> When booting up Win 2K Professional with SP4, a 
> message "The system has no paging file, or the paging file 
> is too small" appears alone on a blue background 
> repeatedly.  Holding down the enter key causes the message 
> to clear and then to repeat cyclically almost 
> immediately.  The result is that the OS is so occupied 
> with flashing that message that the system never finishes 
> booting up to the point that KnowledgeBase Article 259151 
> can apply, because the Start button never appears.  This 
> problem first appeared when the PC was turned off due to 
> an attempt to import a corrupted file into Outlook Express 
> from a 2nd hard drive.
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to recover this hard drive?
> 
>