Re: MISSING PAGEFILE.SYS FILE

The pagefuile.sys has to be created somewhere. Windows will NOT work at all
if it cannot be created somewhere. That is just the way it is. OK you can
see the boot.ini on the root. That means you have enabled "seeing" system
and hidden files correctly. I want you to go to the root of each of your
drives do this and paste back here the results of each file you will make.
Do not worry about the size they should not be too big. Let us do this on C
first and if you have other drives I want you to do the same thing on each.

Start | Run | cmd | cd\ | attrib > contentsc.txt <ENTER>

When you want to do this on D drive say like this:

Start | Run | cmd | d: | cd\ | attrib > contentsd.txt <ENTER>

Now do this for each drive changing the name of the txt file contentsc.txt,
contentsd.txt,... and so on. Do not do this on your CD-ROM\DVD or floppy
drive but do do it on any External drive if you are using one.

Open each of these txt files in Notepad | Edit | Select All | Copy

and in your response:

Edit | Paste.

And send it off back here.

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George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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Sorry for the fog. Boot.ini is in c:\. No pagefile.sys anywhere. All
boxes
are checked on the Everyone group. As you already surmised, reveal of
properties for the C drive shows it as an NTFS file system. I'm at a
loss.

"George Hester" wrote:

OK I do not know why you are doing this C:\root. What you mean is the
root
C: I hope. Not a folder on C drive called root. Again where is your
boot.ini? If you do not see it then you have not enabled viewing all
files
correctly like I suggested you do earlier. Or you are not using NTFS but
if
you can set permissions you must be.

There is no need to have a seperate permissions set for the System
account
on the root. The Everyone Group is sufficient with Full NTFS
permissions -
Everything checked allow Full Control | Modify... and so on. Nothing
else.

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George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hello, George...

Thanks for riding along.

Agree that there's a permissions problem. Have gone into properties
for
the
c:\ root and killed all permission groups except Everyone Group and
System.
Am still not getting apagefile.sys file created. I can make changes
all
day
long in the GUI or registry, and they'll save, but no file is created.
No
pagefile.sys exists, although boot.ini does reside in the c:\ root.

All permission options are checked for both Everyone and System.

BTW, have uninstalled and reinstalled Norton AV 2005. Am having a
problem
there with Liveupdatehandling properly.

Am beginning to wonder if I have a partial SP-2 installation problem.
I'm
running out of things to do to allow Windows to write the
pagefile.sys.

Blake


"George Hester" wrote:

The issue is a NTFS Permissions problem. You still should have a
25MB
pagefile.sys somewhere most likely in C:\Windows but it should be on
the
root C:.

You had said this, "[I] Believe all permissions are properly set for
both
the Administrator and my own user account..." There should be
nothing
more
or less than the Everyone Group having Full NTFS permssions on the
root
C:
And you must set those permissions using the Admin account. Is your
boot.ini also on the root C:?

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George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Everyone" is set for full permission. All settings are
continuing to
register (I can see them on the virtual memory page accessed by
using
control
sysdm.cpl or going to the Registry and viewing the setting under
"Memory
Management") But no pagefile.sys is apparently being created.

I can't believe I'm the only person who has followed all the
directions
and
not been able to get pagefile to work <G!>.

I started to install SP2 and believe I stopped it before it
actually
installed (got cold feet about the quality of my backup at the
time).
Could
this be a part of the problem? Seems likely not.

Interestingly, I also cannot rollback and use any previous restore
point --
that was one of my earlier attempts at solving the problem. The
system
says
it can't be done and that no changes have been made.

"George Hester" wrote:

The article says this at the end:

However, the Everyone group includes the System account.
Removing
the
Everyone group without adding the System account as an
individual
account
renders the paging file unusable

You need to make sure that Everyone has FULL permissions on the
Root
of
the
drive where pagefile.sys resides. Everyone does not mean
everyone
in
the
world. What it means is Everyone that has permissions to log
into
the
system. Set the NTFS permissions on the Root to haveFULL
permissions
and
do
not reset the permissions to propagate to all subfolders
subobjects.

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George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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Have read a number of posts about pagefile.sys problems, and
been
through
<much, most?> of the excellent aumha.org content, the
Microsoft
Knowledge
Base and this user group, and am still baffled.

I can reset the min./max. size of the pagefile in either the
GUI
panel
or
in
the registry. In either case, it shows the changes as having
been
accepted,
but I continue to get the missing pagefile error message when
restarting
XP.> > > Believe all permissions are properly set for both the
Administrator and my
own user account, following instructions in the XP KB file
(315270).
I have tried to make the change in both the Administrator and
user
account

One other rub -- I cannot find pagefile.sys in the C:\ (root)
directory,
even though that's where the system says the pagefile is
located.
I
have
set folder options to show hidden files/folders and to not
hide
protected
files.



I believe the fact I can't see a pagefile.sys is a critical
part
of
the
story. Am running under SP-1, Symantec is disabled (for now).

Any thoughts?







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