Page file too small

I purchased TI yesterday and cloned a 38GB (Win2000 OS) to a 82GB disk. Same system hardware.

Today I tried to boot from the new drive and received the "page file too small" error. Booting in safe mode made no difference.

I then removed the "new" drive and tried to boot from the "old drive" which was the original drive. Now I get no system error msg.

I thought the original disk was supposed to be untouched. I've read a few other posts about "page file too small" error but the solution to fix it seemed to be a bit ambigious.

I'm dead in the water with two no-working drives. Anyone know a fix??

thanks
David

 

There is an option to destroy data on the original disk after cloning.

This article may help you sort out your pagefile problem, hope it helps.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];249321

 

Did you replace the original drive with the clone drive so that it will have the same drive letter on bootup? If not, remove the original drive from the system and put the clone in it's place.

 

This morning, I powered on my system with the original drive and the cloned drive in place. The original drive set as boot drive, clones drive set as slave - no changes from yesterday.

After power on, TI popped up and said checking partitions. After it was done, the system rebooted (attempted) and provided the "lack of boot" error msg. I removed the new cloned drive - no difference. The removed the old drive and rejumpered the new drive to be the master - then I got the page file too small.

Currently, I can't load the OS. Now I'm looking for a disk to try to get it to boot into DOS to try the FDISK /mbr suggestion

So.... if drive letters changed, I don't believe it was my doing.

-David

 

Go to www.bootdisk.com and download the Win98 bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr with only the cloned disk installed as master.

 

did you try going into safe move and doing the following

Right click "My Computer"
select properties
Under Advanced Tab
Under Performance Options
Under Virtual memory select Change

and recreate the paging file to the new drive.

 

He had the same problem with safe mode otherwise that would be the way to correct the problem.

 

SOLVED -- the short answer is to use fdisk /mbr
Here's the link with the details
hope it helps

-David

 

Oops here's the link
http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0007.html

 

That's a nice description of what the problem is and how the FDISK /MBR command fixes it. Thanks

 

Hello David,

Nice that you managed to overcome the problem. Here is a link to <Dan Goodsell's article>, which explains why the "Kawecki Trick" does the business and the Windows NT/2K/XP "fixmbr" command doesn't.

However, it begs the question as to what caused the problem in the first place? I'm guessing here but, after completing the cloning operation, did you by any chance leave both drives connected when first rebooting into Windows? If so then therein lies the reason I believe.

Regards

 

Great article. Saved that one.

 

my problem solved by fdisk /mbr
this is gr8 article regarding this problem ....