Sh4dow Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrcoXP Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Do a clean install on one and ghost the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 well u have to set it on 1.5*with the amont of memory u have as minimum and as maximum double the minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 13, 2005 Author Share Posted May 13, 2005 There is NO pagefile, therefore I can't set it to anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJxp Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 Do you have the harddrive space available for a pagefile to exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 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.htmhttp://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm@Sh4dowDo 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 The drive has 10GB of free space left on one HD. I can't even create the pagefile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJxp Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 >I can't even create the pagefile."Can't"? What exactly happens when you try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 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=315270jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 18, 2005 Author Share Posted May 18, 2005 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 You could try this:http://www.abexo.com/defrag.htmit 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh4dow Posted May 23, 2005 Author Share Posted May 23, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 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=231http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htmYou are not the only one with this problem:http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...5507/15507.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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