win2k.....how to recreate PAGEFILE.SYS??????????????? STILL NEED HELP................

[heat23]

*UPDATE*
WHen i try to go into windows it asks for USERNAME and password..i hit okay, then it says PAGEFILE NOT FOUND OR IS TOO SMALL..TO CHANGE OR CREATE IT..blah blah blah...I click on OK but then it just logs me out and the username/pw screen thing comes up..and the same thing happens over and over...i tried doing an emergency repair but that didnt work...
how can i fix it??
i have access to other win2k comps if needed
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I had 2 hard drives in there... i was dualbooting beween win98 and win2k..win98 was on C: and win2k is on D:...i took out my c: but when i try to boot off my win2k drive now it says DISK BOOT FAILURE.....
how can i fix this???
i have access to other win2k computers if that helps

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i did FIXBOOT and FIXMBR from the console...now when i reboot it says NTLDR MisSING...then DISK BOOT FAILURE
any ideaa

 

[convex]

boot off of a floppy and fire up fdisk, remember to set the partition as active

 

[heat23]

ok i booted off a win98 bootdisk and went to dos..i did fdisk and set it to active partition and i rebooted....now it says "Type in the name of the command interpreter" ...i put in c:\command.com but it didnt work..what do i do now


i put c:\winnt\system32\command.com but it says incorrect dos verstion

 

[hungrypete]

if that doesnt work (if it's already active) try "fdisk /mbr"

 

[convex]

have a 2k disk laying around?

 

[heat23]

yeah i made those 4 boot disks...makebt32.exe from the cd is what i used
but that thing just runs SETUP when i boot off of it

 

[heat23]

help

 

[convex]

did you already fdisk the master boot record? when you start with the cd, does it give you the option to recover the 2k installation?

 

[heat23]

i just fdisked...it sayss command interpreter thng

 

[Technonut]

you can try booting from the Win2000 CD and when it goes into setup, you will have the option to repair an installation. Choose Repair using the Repair Console. Type in the administrator password (enter) them type in FIXBOOT (enter) it will ask if you really want to do it, type Y (enter) If that does not work, do the same as above over again, but type FIXMBR instead of FIXBOOT. They are both valid commands, and one of them should work.

 

[heat23]

dam cd isnt booting..
i ll try with the disks...
but i dont know what the hell my password is
anyway around that

 

[heat23]

crap
i dont know my password..i couldnt do it

 

[Osangar]

Just because you installed the Win2k files to the D: drive that does not mean you were booting from that drive. If the drive that was C: was in your machine as the primary drive at the time you installed Win2k it is likely that the Win2k boot files went there.

Microsoft uses a bizarre naming system for WinNT, your system directory is the directory you boot from and your boot directory is where your operating system files sit.

In this case your system directory may be the root of the drive you removed. Check to see if it has the files boot.ini and ntdetect.com WinNT needs these files on your active partition to boot. If you formatted your D: drive with FAT then you can also check to see if they are there. If you used NTFS you will need NTFS DOS to check this drive.

 

[heat23]

uop

 

[heat23]

i did FIXBOOT and FIXMBR from the console...now when i reboot it says NTLDR MisSING...then DISK BOOT FAILURE
any ideaS?

 

[heat23]

i did FIXBOOT and FIXMBR from the console...now when i reboot it says NTLDR MisSING...then DISK BOOT FAILURE
any ideaS?

 

[heat23]

OH CRAP!!
i just bootted off a win98 boot disk...
there is no hard drive anymore!!
i tried fdisk but it says NO FIXED DISKS present
i better not have lost all my stuff or i will be pissed!!!

 

[heat23]

by the way im running FAT32 not NTFS

 

[PlatinumGold]

Heat23

Did you use the C: drive as your primary when you were multi booting between NT and 98? That is the key to your problem. Even if you were multi booting 2 OS'es. NT was the dominant or Primary OS. You C: drive or your Primary partition contains the Boot Partition which in this case would look for NT, even though you had NT running on your D: drive and 98 on your C: drive. You with me so far?


Now, when you boot w/ the 98 boot disk, C: won't be recognized because the Boot partition is NT.

Basically I think your gonna have to put your C: drive back in and boot up again. From there backup what you need to and start over again.


Hope this helps.

 

[Technonut]

I suggest going into 2000 setup again and using the emergency repair option. Choose Fast Repair, and see if it works. If it does not, re run setup again and choose the option to recover a destroyed system or system disk. I have used the FIXBOOT option a couple of times before, and it has worked. I would not have fooled with any FDISK options before I tried the recovery and repair options from the 2000 CD, but that is the advice you received first. Hopefully it could be straightened out.

EDIT: Your files must still be there, otherwise you would not have been able to run FIXBOOT, or FIXMBR. The console would not have recognized an installation of 2000 being there.

 

[heat23]

ok heres what i did now...
i copied boot.ini and ntldr from another comp and puit it onto mine...
win2k boots up now!!! BUT i have another prob..
it loads windows and assks for username and password..i do that..then a window pops up and says THERE IS NO PAGING FILE OR PAGING FILE IS TO SMALL...TO CREATE ONE...blah blah
i click on OK, and then ie just logs me out and brings me back to the login screen...it keeps doing that
any ideas?

 

[Technonut]

I would still suggest to do the Fast Repair option. It should restore anything that is messed up.

 

[heat23]

but it sasks for a EMERGENCY REPAIR disk or something...how do i make one??

 

[heat23]

but it sasks for a EMERGENCY REPAIR disk or something...how do i make one??

 

[Technonut]

It should give you the option to try it without a emergency repair disk. I never had to make one, so I can't help there. I was able to run the Fast Repair option without one before.