re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Sunday, August 6, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob
(1 messages posted)
FYI
Had the same problem you did and changed the
directory that xp looks at for the page file in as I didn't
know how the rename the file as you did. Seems to
work so far, without your post I still would be nowhere!!
Thanks
to edit that directory:
Pagefile too small or Missing
Start/Run/Regedit: Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement
There you will find these entries: PagingFiles:Reg_Multi_SZ:C:\pagefile.sys. (make
this C:\p\pagefile.sys )TempPageFile:Reg_Dword:0x1
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 11:11 pm, Bernd Wechner wrote:
>
>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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