re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Monday, January 13, 2003 at 11:11 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bernd Wechner
(16 messages posted)
No-one's following this thread anymore it seems, or we're way over everyone's head!
Anyhow, I half fixed the problem!
I did a good deal of research into NTFS, MFT and Index Allocations and manually using
a good disk editor renamed pagefile.sys to pagefile.sos. This has to be done in two
places as far as I can tell. In the MFT entry for pagefile.sys at the $30 (FILENAME)
attribute and in the directory (index allocation) found under the $90 (INDEX ROOT)
attribute for the root directory (MFT entry #5).
Rename it with a sledge hammer, and reboot, and now all is well. I could create a
pagefile using pagefileconfig.vbs, and life's back to normal.
Almost. I now have a file called pagefile.sos, which exists, and yet, is completely
and imprenetrably invisible to the XP explorer and the DOS window and the Recovery
Console.
Now, how do we remove such a file (never mind how it comes to be and what nuderlies
it's profound invisibility)?
MY best guess is to wipe the MFT record completely, and then run a chkdsk to recover
the orphaned clusters ... but that seems a little risky to be frank - shall I play
with fire? Or is it worth hanging on to it, to learn one day just how such a file
can be so adamantly invisible - which attributes in the MFT or directory entry are
to blame? It clearly isn't the name! I've changed that ;-).
Now I can finally use some decent software again and I no longer get a silly message
when I log on about my missing pagefile.
Any pointers wildly appreciated of course. I may potter along researching a little.
A little knowledge is a good thing - though expensive to acquire!
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