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re: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A CORRUPT PAGEFILE.SYS Can this file be deleted? Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 12:32 pm Posted by Randell (1 messages posted) You can't delete the file, it is the virtual memory file. You can change the size of this file or designate another drive for it if you can get back in windows. If not, your options are slim. If you have a boot disk use it to get to a dos prompt and try to delete it from there. Once Winddows loads, there is no way to delete the file. Once you get in Windows, you can modify the file size or move it to another drive by doing the following: 1.Click the 'Start button.' 2.Highlight 'Control Panel' and click on 'System.' 3.Click on the 'Advanced' tab. 4.Under the "Performance" section click on the 'Settings' button. 5.In the "Performance Options" window, click on the 'Advanced' tab. 6.At the bottom of the window, you will see a "Virtual memory" section. Click on the 'Change' button. 7.You can click on the hard drive you want to use for the paging file in the Drive List box. You can also set a custom size of the file, allow Windows to manage the file, or use no paging file at all. I strongly suggest that unless you are an expert power-user, you allow Windows to manage your page file size. 8.Click on C to change the size to 2mb in both min. & max. sizes if you want to move the file to another drive. 9.Click the 'OK' button on all open windows. 10.When you are back to your desktop, reboot your computer for the new settings to take place. On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 1:31 am, LEROY HESS wrote: >My brother-in-law has windows me. >It stopped working and now he has a very >large file,about 500M in size and the only >way i can describe what the file name looks like is with hex to describe the name. > >hex value for the name is: >C3 C3 C3 C3 56 8B F1 68 80 >CAN THIS FILE BE RENAMED OR DELEATED. >HE TRIED TO DELEATE IT BUT IT SAID IT WAS A WINDOWS FILE. >THANK YOU FOR ANY ASSISTANCE!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A CORRUPT PAGEFILE.SYS Can this file be deleted? Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 11:00 am Posted by kj (1 messages posted) Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at " http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto " for swap file information specific to your operating system before resizing, deleting, etc. For instance, if your OS is XP, you can try clearing the file through registry settings as instructed below. Other options might be in software utility programs that allow you to clean and wipe files for the purpose of security. Excerpted from Microsoft Knowledge Base: How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown (Q314834) This article documents the method for clearing the Windows paging file (Pagefile.sys) during the shutdown process, so that no unsecured data is contained in the paging file when the shutdown process is complete. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q314834 How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314834 WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the following registry key to a value of 1: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management If the value does not exist, add the following value: Value Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown Value Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1 This change does not take effect until you restart the computer. ================================== On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 12:32 pm, Randell wrote: >You can't delete the file, it is the virtual memory file. You can change the size >of this file or designate another drive for it if you can get back in windows. If >not, your options are slim. If you have a boot disk use it to get to a dos prompt >and try to delete it from there. Once Winddows loads, there is no way to delete the >file. Once you get in Windows, you can modify the file size or move it to another >drive by doing the following: > > >1.Click the 'Start button.' >2.Highlight 'Control Panel' and click on 'System.' >3.Click on the 'Advanced' tab. >4.Under the "Performance" section click on the 'Settings' button. >5.In the "Performance Options" window, click on the 'Advanced' tab. >6.At the bottom of the window, you will see a "Virtual memory" section. Click on >the 'Change' button. >7.You can click on the hard drive you want to use for the paging file in the Drive >List box. You can also set a custom size of the file, allow Windows to manage the >file, or use no paging file at all. I strongly suggest that unless you are an expert >power-user, you allow Windows to manage your page file size. >8.Click on C to change the size to 2mb in both min. & max. sizes if you want to move >the file to another drive. >9.Click the 'OK' button on all open windows. >10.When you are back to your desktop, reboot your computer for the new settings to >take place. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A CORRUPT PAGEFILE.SYS Can this file be deleted? Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 8:52 am Posted by Fran P (1 messages posted) 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. On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 1:31 am, LEROY HESS wrote: >My brother-in-law has windows me. >It stopped working and now he has a very >large file,about 500M in size and the only >way i can describe what the file name looks like is with hex to describe the name. > >hex value for the name is: >C3 C3 C3 C3 56 8B F1 68 80 >CAN THIS FILE BE RENAMED OR DELEATED. >HE TRIED TO DELEATE IT BUT IT SAID IT WAS A WINDOWS FILE. >THANK YOU FOR ANY ASSISTANCE!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A CORRUPT PAGEFILE.SYS Can this file be deleted? Monday, March 31, 2008 at 2:40 am 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum