Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too Small

Afternoon,
I am receiving an error message when I turn this workstation on and
attempt to login. I cannot proceed from this point as it dumps back to the
login screen. It reads:

Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too Small

I had a failing hard drive, I put it in this system to retrieve the files
and forced a chkdsk on boot. Somehow the OS was switched to drive E: after
that (and chkdsk checked C: even though I said E:). I removed the failing
hard drive after that boot and restarted, now the system gives me the above
error message when logging in.

-KB articles provide no assistance because when that error appears I cannot
login.
-I do not have Intel application accelerator
-I attempted to edit the registry offline to view what the pagefile.sys
settings were and in all HKLM\ControlSet00*\Session Manager\Memory
Management\PagingFiles it reads c:\pagefile.sys and the right sizes
-Created a blank pagefile.sys text file in recovery console, set the file
attributes, it deletes itself
-I would put the failing drive back in, it will login. Unfortunately the
drive has now completely died.
-Using another NTFS drive does not permit the system to boot
-Running chkdsk in recovery console does nothing

I was looking for HKLM\CurrentControlSet, but I assume that is not present
until the system starts. Is there somewhere else I can look? There is no
pagefile.sys present on the drive at this time.

Please help, reinstalling feels like defeat.

TIA
mene


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