re: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A CORRUPT PAGEFILE.SYS Can this file be deleted?
Monday, March 31, 2008 at 2:40 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lucas C
(1 messages posted)
The same thing happened on my Windows XP. The other day when I started it up, I got
a message saying that C drive had to be checked for consistency. I didn't have time
so I cancelled it. It continued starting up and everything seemed to work fine. The
next day, it asked again, so I allowed it. It took a while like normal then started
up fine. Today it asked again, I cancelled it and it started up fine again. Just
a few minutes ago, I noticed a "pagefile.sys" on my D drive (a partition on my primary
and only hard drive that I use for storage). The file was 1.49 GB (about what the
one on my C drive normally is). I checked the one on my C drive and it says 0 bytes.
I then tryed opening it in two hex editors and then notepad. Each time, I got the
same message in system tray:
XVI32: XVI32.exe - Corrupt File
The file or directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.
Does this mean there is something physically wrong with the hard drive?
On Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 8:52 am, Fran P wrote:
>This also happens on other versions of Windows. Another quick solution to save
data
>on the original drive with the problem would be to get a 2nd hard drive, make it
>primary, load OS onto the new hard drive, and the apps that you need in order to
>retrieve the data.
>
>Recover the data to the new drive.
>Then if you want, format the old drive, which is now slave, and make it your new
>data drive.
>
>It's a down/dirty fix, but at least you might be able to recover and keep your data.
> Had someone here w/same issue, and having the 2nd drive helped.
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