Win2k Page file problems on startup.

[mstudd]

Hi guys,
When I start up my Win2k machine, it gives me a warning just after I logon.
It says there was no page file detected at startup and a temp. one has been created.
When I go to hardware- advanced properties to fix it, it says it has allocated 20 mb for the page file.
When I go to reset it, my old initial and final settings of 512 mb are still there, I re-enter them anyway and reboot, but it still tells me the same thing......no page file.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks.

Oh yeah, No out of the ordinary errors or warnings in Events viewer either.

 

[Staver]

I'd try to reset the pagefile.sys on to another partition. If that works, I'd reset it back to where you had it.

 

[Psychoholic]

Have you been playing with NTFS permissions???

Make sure the system and your user account have read/write access to the page file.

 

[Saltin]

Psy's got it. I bet the system account doesn't have permission to the pagefile.sys file.

 

[mstudd]

You guys are too good!

That was the problem, I had been playing around with NTFS permissions and somehow the system account lost access to the pagefile.sys file.

Anyway, it's fixed and working.

Thanks all, for the help.