re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 3:49 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bernd Wechner (16 messages posted) I'm loathe to reformat and reinstall I have to admit, and wonder if we can't get XP out of its time warp. It must store this memory of a ghost page file somewhere - in the registry? somewhere else? that can be nuked with enough knowhow ;-). Latest efforts are revealing: Effort 1: How to Delete the Pagefile.sys File in Recovery Console http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q255205 http://www.cybercomsys.com/win2k.htm In the recovery console I try: del pagefile.sys No matching files were found. copy boot.ini pagefile.sys Access is denied. This "Access is denied" is telling! Wonder why? I mean two web pages recommend justthis procedure, including MS themselves, so it should work. Effort 2: Pagefileconfig.vbs http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/pagefileconfig.asp Pagefileconfig.vbs won't run in the recovery console (needs cscript), but at a Command prompt in XP: cscript pagefileconfig.vbs /delete /VO c: INFO: No pagefile exists on volume 'C:' cscript pagefileconfig.vbs /create /I 256 /M 512 /VO c: ERROR: Page File for the specified volume cannot be created. This is pretty much the same feedback. The pagefile doesn't exist, yet it's unable to create a new one. Perhaps I can coax pagefileconfig.vbs into revealing an error code or something in the way of "why the heck not?" Indeed a time-warped ghostly page file it seems! Written in response to: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (czyxzy: Monday, December 16, 2002 at 11:10 pm) Responses to this message: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 10:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:06 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:33 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:36 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 10:21 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 4:51 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:43 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (czyxzy: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 11:10 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Chuck: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 4:43 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:46 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Chuck: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 8:51 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 9:15 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:49 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 10:04 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Wed, Dec 18, 2002, 2:38 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 10:49 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 11:11 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bob: Sun, Aug 6, 2006, 8:04 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Kevin: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 3:58 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Mike De.Petris: Fri, Jan 5, 2007, 8:17 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Eric Goehl: Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 7:34 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Kevin: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 12:50 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (LarryV: Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 7:23 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Rob: Tue, Dec 2, 2008, 4:37 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Mike Peters: Wed, Dec 31, 2008, 1:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum