Cannot Log On after a Hive Corruption


The story so far...

1. Had W2K SP4 installed and Ghosted a drive using Norton Ghost.
2. Experienced 2 working disks with W2K on - could boot into either OK; NEW
or OLD.
3. Had a Hive Corruption occur on the NEW disk - "Error Message: Windows
Could Not Start Because the Following File is Missing or Corrupt"
\Winnt\System32\Config\Systemced - As in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269075
4. Followed the fix procedure, except copied the \system32\config\system
from the OLD disk. - Both disks were configured as "C:" when operating
separately.
5. Rebooted on NEW disk - All OK once.
6. Subsequent reboots, now attempt to Login as Adminstrator get: "Your
system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small."
7. When any user logs in there is a black screen, delay and then the user
logs out again back to the welcome screen - ie. I cannot get in as any user.
8. On Recovery Console can log in as Administrator but there is no
PAGEFILE.SYS present.

Theories:
a. Cannot see any way to create a valid PAGEFILE.SYS. On rebooting off the
OLD drive, the PAGFILE.SYS disappeared there too with exactly the same
problem. Coincidence?
b. As Administrator in Recovery Console can create a PAGEFILE.SYS from copy
of BOOT.INI as in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255205
c. Drive letters could be involved - D: NEW, C: OLD?
d. If there is no PAGEFILE.SYS present, surely the system has enough
information to create one, so has the Administrator lost rights to create
one?
e. Cannot run any utilities to see what the registry says about pagefile
size.

Any help here appreciated.
Barry.


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