Upgrade from W2K Pro to XP

[Sh4dow]

upgrade several PC's from Windows 2000 to Windows XP SP2. After the install completed, and administrator or any user logs in to the network, you get a Pagefile error. It says that there is no pagefile set or it is set to low. When you go into Settings, Control Panel, System, Advanced, click on the Performance Settings button, Advanced Tab, Virtual Memory Change button...I have tried to set it to a Custom Size (1024), and let System Managed Size, click on the Set button and click on, even reboot, but it still gives me the error, and when I check there is nothing set (currently allocated: 0 MB).

HELP??

[OrcoXP]

Do a clean install on one and ghost the rest

[Sh4dow]

Thanks, but I'm looking more for a solution to the problem rather than wiping and ghosting. Unless of course, that is the only way to fix this

[boooggy]

well u have to set it on 1.5*with the amont of memory u have as minimum and as maximum double the minimum.

[Sh4dow]

There is NO pagefile, therefore I can't set it to anything!

[KJxp]

Do you have the harddrive space available for a pagefile to exist?

[jaclaz]

well u have to set it on 1.5*with the amont of memory u have as minimum and as maximum double the minimum.

The above is just a pre-assumption that isn't true anymore on newer machines with lots of memory and was never proved to be accurate on elder one.

Have a read here:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

@Sh4dow

Do you have just one partition on more than one on those machines?

(If more than one, did you gave the correct partition?)

If you have another spare HD, can you try to hook it up on one of the machines and try making the pagefile on this second one?

jaclaz

[Sh4dow]

The drive has 10GB of free space left on one HD. I can't even create the pagefile.

[KJxp]

>I can't even create the pagefile.

"Can't"? What exactly happens when you try?

[Sh4dow]

The option is not available. It's shaded out almost like if I didn't have admin privledges, however I'm the admin of the box.

[jaclaz]

Could it be this?

The paging file (Pagefile.sys) is a hidden operating system file. If you modify the NTFS permissions on a volume in Windows, the System account may be inadvertently removed from the partition. If this occurs, the System account cannot manage some system resources such as the paging file.

By default, the Everyone group has Full Control permissions on an NTFS volume. This permission might have been removed to provide additional security. Individual accounts, such as the Administrator account, may have been added. However, the Everyone group includes the System account. Removing the Everyone group without adding the System account as an individual account renders the paging file unusable.

From :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=315270

jaclaz

[Sh4dow]

That should work, however it doesn't. This has happened on 3 boxes that I have upgraded from Win2K Pro to WinXP Pro.

Any other suggestions??

[jaclaz]

You could try this:

http://www.abexo.com/defrag.htm

it should disable existing pagefile, defrag it and reenable it.

Or, you could try to boot from BRt, pisically delete the pagefile, then re-boot normally.

Windows should re-create the pagefile, and maybe this time settings will be accessible.

jaclaz

[Sh4dow]

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I still have no solutions. I only get this error when I upgrad from Win2k to WinXP Pro on Dell 3500 systems. Maybe it's a problem with these particular machines? Although I have never seen this error before.

[jaclaz]

Or, you could try to boot from BRt, pisically delete the pagefile, then re-boot normally.

Sorry, maybe I am becoming "diswritical".

What I meant is boot from a BartPE, delete pagefile.sys and see if at next re-boot file is recreated.

If you tried that and it does not work, next step is checking/changing Registry Settings, see here:

http://aleeya.net/modules.php?name=Section...ticle&artid=231

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

You are not the only one with this problem:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...5507/15507.html

jaclaz