windows 2000 pagefile problem

[AShadeOfClear]

I replaced my hard disk with a larger one, and using Norton Ghost I restored an image of my Windows 2000 installation to the new drive. When I boot up Windows it tells me that my pagefile doesn't exist or is too small. I click OK, and then the screen goes blank and the system hangs. I belive that when I had both disks plugged in, the drive was assigned a letter other than C:, perhaps D:. Now the drive is probably C, and Windows may be looking for the pagefile on the nonexistent D:. Any ideas on how I can change the location of the pagefile without being in the OS? (safe mode doesn't work either)

 

[AShadeOfClear]

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[tigerwannabe]

if you can boot to a command prompt, have you checked the ini files? i think the pagefile location(s) hang out in system.ini

 

[AShadeOfClear]

Almost right, the system.ini holds pagefile location for windows 9x. In windows 2000 it is contained in the registry key "PagingFiles" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement.

I have to figure out how to change this value from within the recovery console, if possible. I can't do it from DOS because the partition is NTFS.