your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Monday, December 16, 2002 at 6:06 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bernd Wechner
(16 messages posted)
I experienced some disk corruption a while back which was successfully corrected
by Check Disk after several attempts ultimately using the Recovery Console. Fortunately
all is well now and has been for months. I presume some bad blocks were marked and
kicked out of action.
I was hanging on for deeper problems any moment for a long while, but the system
has been so stable for so long now, I'm starting to relax again (though keeping regular
backups all the same).
The only remaining symptom is a persisten message at logon which states:
"your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small"
I can't get rid of this. I can change the total paging file size as I will on the
Performance Options dialog box (Advanced page from the Settings button in the Performance
section of the System Properties dialog box).
I've set it to zero. I've moved it to an external drive temporarily, moved it back.
Just can't lose this message.
I'm thinking that the paging file is on a reserved part of the disk, in contiguous
space, and that some of it was corrupted and has been flagged as such by Check Disk.
For this reason XP detects a faulty paging file and ceates a temporary one. It says
as much when you try and change the properties of the paging file anyhow.
Has anyone any tips on how to recreate the paging file permanently in a way that
will avoid this message? Or for that matter a vague notion as to what might be going
on (I have a vague one, but no knowledge per se, and hours of research on-line have
yielded no return).
Where can one read about the inside story on paging file management on XP, instead
of some mamby pamby walk through steps that I've already tried (using available dialog
boxes and buttons and settings).
Can I nuke my paging file, and create it anew? Will that make this mesage go away?
Can I diagnose the cause of this message any further?
I'd be so pleased to learn more about these things ...
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