Re: Another System Has No Paging File or the Paging File Too Small

No Pagefile would prevent any System Dump operations. Not a major
issue but could make system instabilities harder to isolate. I guess you
could get away with no Pagefile but that depends on how much physical
RAM the PC has to work with. If this is an embedded solution, how
much loading ( RAM / CPU resources ) is required for normal operation?
My other concern would be Temp space. If the 4-Gigabyte drive is the
only mass storage available to XP you'd want to closely monitor and
maintain the Temp folders.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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System Restore service is disabled, but the pagefile error still occurs.

John John stated that Windows does not tolerate pagefiles on removable
devices, and that I should set Virtual memory to "no paging file". Your
thoughts on that?

"R. McCarty" wrote:

Hibernation is OK then, I'd probably just set the Start Mode for the
System Restore service to Disabled ( 4 ). That will ensure that it is
not running. Can be done with Services.Msc.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok... there is no checkbox to disable System Restore on my System
Properties
page. Is there another way to do it? Also, the box for "Enable
hibernation"
is not checked.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

53 is OK, I'd suggest you either disable System Restore or set it's
reserved space to something that might hold 2 restore points, say
500 Megabytes ( Max ). Also someone yesterday mentioned the
Hibernation ( Hiberfil.Sys ). I would agree you might want to set
Hibernation support to disabled. This would recover disk space =
to your Physical RAM count.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are two errors in this morning's System event log.

#1 - The System Restore initialization process failed.
#2 - The System Restore Service service terminated with the
following
error:
The system cannot find the device specified.

The time from pressing the ON button to the error message is 53
seconds.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

OK, that helps. Have you checked the System Event Log ? you
may have startup issues. Speaking of that what sort of boot time
are you getting ?
Event Log, Click Start, Run (type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
Expand the System Log in the Left pane, check Right Pane for
red icons that denote errors.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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There is no anti-virus or other security software installed.
This
is a
new,
fresh OS installation.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

To purge \DllCache, open Command prompt window and type
SFC \PurgeCache [Enter]
What Anti-Virus or other Security software is installed ? Some
products ( eTrust 7.x ) can interfere with Pagefile changes.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Thanks for the suggestions. I followed your instructions
including
defraging
the volume and trimming some of the Windows components. I did
not
locate
a
\DllCache folder to purge. Even after manually sizing
pagefile
to
256MB
(initial) and 384MB (maximum), I still get the "System Has No
Paging
File
or
the Paging File Is Too Small" error after reboot.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

Set Pagefile to None, Reboot, Defrag the volume, then set a
manually
sized pagefile of say 256 or 384 Megabytes ( Min/Max ). I
still
would
recommend you use Add/Remove programs ( Windows Components )
and then say XPLite to trim back the footprint of XP. You can
also
reduce it further if you purge the \DllCache which will
recover
~500
Meg.
Actually, I'd download and use Perfect Disk 8.0 in both a
Boot
and
GUI mode pass to get the drive optimized. On several
occasions
I've
been able to get Windows XP installed/running in a 2.7
Gigabyte
disk
footprint.

Perfect Disk 8.0 evaluation versions here:
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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I just completed a fresh installation of WinXP and I
immediately
began
getting the "System Has No Paging File or the Paging File
Is
Too
Small"
error. Before asking my question I thought I'd review the
other
posts
to
see
if I could fix the problem. My project requires only the
OS
and
my
control
application so a small (4GB) removable microdrive was
selected.
The
drive
has only one partition. Both files C:\pagefile.sys and
C:\windows\system32\temppf.sys were located on the drive.

I followed the suggestions in KB Article 315270 and ensured
that
all
users
(Administrator and one other) has Full Control permissions.
I
also
followed
some suggestions from Pegasus about giving everybody full
access
using
the
"cacls c: /e /g everyone:F" command, and ensuring that the
SYSTEM
account
has
full access to the HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory
Management registry key. I even checked that the
"Read-only"
box
was
not
checked in the C:\pagefile.sys properties per someones
suggestion.
Nothing
fixed the error.

Finally, following a thought from R. McCarty that the
C:\pagefile.sys
file
might be corrupt, I deleted it thinking that a new file
would
be
created
when
I set the page file size in Windows
Explorer\Properties\Advanced\Performance\Advanced\Virtual
Memory.
Of
course
that wasn't the case, and I am unable to copy
C:\windows\system32\temppf.sys
to the root because the system says the file's in use.

Can anyone offer any assistance?

















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