Re: Pagefile.sys MISSING!

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R. McCarty wrote:

Steve,

  I just got in the habit to do a quick check and note whether it
recommends a fix/repair and avoid Phases 4 & 5.  Many times
when I'm doing phone service calls, it's good to know if the
volume is marked "Dirty". Users are generally in a hurry to get
the PC back up and running and don't want to wait on a full
Chkdsk. Also, I've seen Chkdsk - /F fix errors that result in
user data disappearing. If the volume is "Dirty", I'll backup or
Image before doing the repair.


Those are certainly good reasons, R. Thanks for expounding on them.

Steve



"Steve N." <Steve_N@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23njEU72SFHA.1160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ChapBell wrote:


Thanks for the reply.

A couple of questions, since I really only know enough to get myself into trouble.

Do you mean set the Pagefile to System Configured? 

No, he means set it to No Paging File.


I have run Chkdsk, in fact that is what I believed started the problem in the first place. I did defrag yesterday. But I'll run the chkdsk again. Will it tell me to run with /F qualifier?

I'd just run it with the /F the first time. I don't see a need to run it first without the /F to see if there are errors, if there are errors the the /F will find and fix them, but them maybe R. McCarty has a spefici creason for doing it that way which I'm unaware of.

Steve


ChapBell

"R. McCarty" wrote:



Turn Paging Off. Run a Chkdsk C:, if indicated re-run with /F Qualifier.
Then defrag the destination drive. Set it to System configured and reboot.
I've seen this exact condition before and the issue turned out to be an
inconsistency on the drive itself & the Registry Key in Memory Mgmt
wasn't updated properly, Sort of an "Orphaned" Pagefile.

"ChapBell" <ChapBell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A0510BD7-3713-44A1-A134-7D1DAE2CD3B8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


been there...done that...no good...helpful information, but didn't work on my
problem!

"River_Rat" wrote:



Virtual Memory in Windows XP
by Alex Nichol

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

--
Good Day
River Rat




"ChapBell" <ChapBell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:35352130-3E8B-40E5-B575-951073000947@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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?








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