Re: Win2k Page File Problem

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From: Pegasus (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 07/27/04


Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:27:47 +1000


"Naikuteee" <naikuteee@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ce5k5j$8d0@odbk17.prod.google.com...
> Dear All,
> I have 2 40GB hard disks. Each of them have two primary and two
> logical partitions. I have Win2k installed on First logical partition
> of the First Disk. I Copied this entire partition to the First logical
> partition of the Second Disk. On both the disks, I have Win 98
> installed on the First Primary partition and the Second Primary
> partition is hidden. Hence win98 has c: drive and Win2k has d: drive.
> The problem now is when i tried to boot my m/c with the second disk,
> Everything is fine till i get the log on screen... When I tried logging
> in, A warning message appears which displays a message about the low
> memory available for the page file and instead of continuing with the
> log on process it displays the log on screen again and the loop
> continues...
> When i try booting with the first disk everything is fine. What
> might have gone wrong???
> Nuts & Geeks over there please tell ur views...
> thanks & regars to all
> Naikuteee
>

Your second copy of Win2000 remembers the original drive by
its long name. It might look like so:
\Volume{cacb5f01-dfb8-11d8-a4e9-806d6172696f}

You could try to fix the problem like so:
- Boot with both disks inserted.
- Run reged32.exe.
- Click HKLM
- Click Registry / Open Hive
- Specify the SYSTEM file of your second Win2000 installation.
- Navigate to HKLM/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/:
- Delete all keys which look like "\DosDevice\<DRIVE_LETTER>:"

While you're at it, you should also check for the correct location
of the paging file:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
Memory Management



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