Re: Trouble with missing Pagefile.sys

Tom,

In my C drive I have about 4G free, and in my D drive about 2G. That seems
like enough given a nominal pagefile size of ~384 M.

cheers,
MRT

"Tom Porterfield" wrote:

> MarkRT wrote:
>
> > Machine info:
> > HP Laptop, XP SP1, and all updates
> > One 20G drive, partitioned into 2 parts
> > 4G free on C:
> > C: is Fat32
> >
> > Status:
> > Last night, when I logged in, I get a messsage saying my pagefile is missing
> > or too small, and use system control panel to fix it. There were no major
> > changes to the system recently. (I did run an audio process yesterday which
> > mistakenly filled up my D: drive, so this may have been the culprit.)
> >
> > If I used the System Properties/Advanced/Performance...etc to change the
> > size of the pagefile, the same message appeared, unless I turned pagefile
> > off. After turning back on, same problem.
>
> ....
>
> > I don't know that access is a problem, since it is FAT32. I can't use cacls
> > cmd because it is not an NTFS volume.
> >
> > If anyone has any further suggestions I would greatly appreciate.
>
> How much free space do you have on your C drive? How about your D
> drive? It sounds like you may not have enough free space to create a
> proper page file. To find out how much free space you have on a drive,
> right click on the drive in Explorer and select Properties. The general
> tab will have a pie chart showing the used and free space for the drive.
> Used space is in blue. Above the pie chart you will also see lines
> with the numerical values for used space and free space. What are those
> values on your drives?
> --
> Tom Porterfield
> MS-MVP Windows
> http://support.telop.org
>
> Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
>
.

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