re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Monday, December 16, 2002 at 11:10 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by czyxzy
(594 messages posted)
XP appears to be stuck in a kind of time warp... It has a memory of where the pagefile.sys
should be, but can't find it... as you can't find it. If XP can't find the file,
it can't delete it or change it's location or recreat it or replace it. I think it
has a great deal to do with the file being at a fixed position on the disk... a position
destroyed via the original problem or marked out by the fix. I had a pagefile.sys
problem that had nothing to do with a disk problem but which ended up with the same
symptoms as yours. I had to reformat and do a clean reinstall. A repair didn't work.
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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