Re: Pagefile.sys MISSING!


"ChapBell" <ChapBell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell computer. Recently, for no apparent reason, I've begun
getting
> a "virtual Memory"error when I boot up. I have done all the things one is
> supposed to do: reset Virtual Memory (Pagefile.sys) -- no good. If I set
it
> to 0 then it boots regularly. If I set it to anything in Custom setting or
in
> System managed I get the error.
>
> I have read most of the posts here and nothing recommended in them has
> helped. I have only one hard drive 60 GB Maxtor. Dell Optiplex with 512
MB
> memory. Drive is new.
>
> Does anyone have anything new to suggest?

This could happen if your drive letters are confused. Here are
a few things I would look at:
- What drive do the env. variables %System% and %SystemDrive% point at?
- Is it the drive you expect? (Usually drive C:)
- Is it the drive you have chosen for your paging file?
- Is there sufficient free space on this drive? How much?
- What are the NTFS permissions for the root directory of your system drive?
- What is the location of the temporary paging file? Is it the same as the
permanent paging file?
- Did you run chkdsk to verify the integrity of your file system?
- I don't suppose you have a folder called "c:\pagefile.sys"? . . .
- And I don't suppose that your paging file has a read-only attribute? . . .


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