How to register a hard drive was from a different computer? [pagefile] [different computer]
Q: Ive moved and now my Windows partitions comes with an error saying the pagefile does not exist or is too small . aka can not find it. The problem is to solve this problem to the operating system to load, and it keeps popping this message and will not be fully charged up. If I hook this hard drive to another Win2K computer, how do I edit the registry? If I can do, I can turn the pagefile values so they match up and everything will be happy again .
Thanks for any help to change
Re:Thanks, that looks like it would have worked…. I'll have to try it next time (crossed fingers), err… maybe there won't be a next time.
guy
Re:RTFM.
Check the helpfiles under Regedt32. Look for a topic on 'how to load a hive'.
Re:Thanks for the help. I am sure you can edit the pagefile attributes through the registry, I read a paper on doing it on MSoft's website. I ended up just throwing 98se on there and setting it up… haha.
Re:I think you are going about it all wrong.
The Pagefile is the Win2k swap file.
You can try booting with a DOS bootdisk and doing a FDISK /mbr to see if that helps.
or
To REPAIR it, you either have to use the Win2k CD and tell it to do a Repair (which very seldom works)
When using the Win2k CD Repair, choose M (manual) as the Fast will not help you in this case.
or use at your own risk
if you have the Recovery Console installed:
Boot into Recovery Console.
Because you boot into the %SystemRoot% folder (most commonly the C:\Winnt folder), type the following command:
cd \
Type the following command to overwrite the existing Pagefile.sys file with Boot.ini:
copy c:\boot.ini pagefile.sys
Type the following command:
del pagefile.sys
After you copy Boot.ini over to Pagefile.sys, Pagefile.sys appears in the directory listing.
You can not edit the Registry to fix the Pagefile that I am aware of.
Re:^BUMP!^
Hasn't anyone ever tried this before? Like, if something messed up (aka you) a registry setting and caused the computer not to boot up anymore. So, you hook up that hard drive to a computer that works and edit the registry from there to fix it… I know how to fix it, but I don't know how to edit the registry of the messed up computer in the first one…
Please!!!
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