In article <eP$nR0lmDHA.2964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
Oli Restorick [MVP] <oli@mvps.org> wrote:
>It sounds to me like Windows cannot locate any swapfile at all.

I forgot to mention -- when I cloned the drive using DriveImage 7, I
had this behavior, but no error messages.

However, when I did a straight disk copy from my Linux boot CD,
I got a message about the paging file being not large enough,
and instructions on how to modify it. All the same, it started
to log me in, then logged me out.

Is the paging file known to Windows by a block offset rather than
a filename (even though it appears as a regular file in NTFS)?

>You may be able to boot the machine up to the login prompt and then use
>another machine to attach to the registry remotely and modify the following
>key
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory
>Management
>
>You want to change the PagingFiles value to reflect a currently-available
>location and size.
>
>Also, this value is of type RegMultiSZ, so you will need to use regedt32.exe
>to modify it (unless you use Windows XP, where RegEdit contains this
>functionality).

I wonder why, if I did a straight copy, it wouldn't work... perhaps
drive-letter assignment isn't happening as expected? I'll research paging
file setup on Win2K, anyway. Thanks!

- Tim

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