Re: not enough virtual memory or paging file quota after repair in

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From: d d (dd_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/28/04


Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:13:02 -0800

I'll be saving this for another time, I'm sure it will come in
useful. For this occasion I was lucky that restoring the hive
did the trick. Never again will I visit someone and think "I'm
gonna do all your windows updates for you to ensure you're
up to date and secure". Leave well alone :)

Thanks guys . . . .

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

> You cannot edit the registry from the Recovery Console.
>
> If you had plenty of time, knowledge and a good deal of
> patience then you could boot the machine with a boot
> disk from here:
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
> It gives you the option to edit the registry off-line and
> examine/modify the location of the paging file:
>
> 3. Boot from the boot disk.
> 4. Accept the suggested NT partition.
> 5. Accept the full path to the registry directory.
> 6. Type system
> 7. Type 9 (for Registry Editor)
> 8. Type ? (to see the available commands)
> 9. Type ls (to see the current keys)
> 10. Type cd ControlSet003 (or ControlSet002 if you have no 003) (it's
> case-sensitive!)
> 11. Type cd Control
> 12. Type cd Session Manager
> 13. Type cd Memory Manager
> 14. Type type PagingFiles
> You can now see where the system expects your paging file to be.
> 15. Type ed PagingFiles
> 16. Type C:\pagefile.sys 192 385
> (or whatever is appropriate for you)
> 17. Type --n
> 18. Type type PagingFile
> You should see your changes.
> 19. Type q
> You will be prompted to save or discard your changes.
>
>
> "d d" <dd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:49E69FC7-A7D1-41E3-90C7-061A3A068AE4@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks but I have no network access to the machine. I really need
> > to know how to change the registry from the recovery console, or
> > to restore it to a previous point. Looks like I won't be able to fix it
> > for them in time.
> >
> > "Andrew E." wrote:
> >
> > > Try booting to xp cd,recovery,press enter for password,then in cmd
> screen
> > > type:CHKDSK C: /R When its thru,type:EXIT Let xp try to start.If
> problems
> > > still exist,you might try to repair xp again,also if the registry is
> > > corrupt,or
> > > pagefile in the registry corrupt (i dought) but the fix for that
> is:307545
> > > #307973 Both deal in repair.
> > >
> >
>
>
>



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