re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Monday, December 16, 2002 at 6:33 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by triplate
(4621 messages posted)
I consider this a good explanation of pagefile issues(3 or 4 pages)....maybe its
to your liking.
On Monday, December 16, 2002 at 6:06 pm, Bernd Wechner wrote:
>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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