XP - Won't stop complaining about my pagefile

[Stupendous]

OS is Windows XP Professional

I'll give some background info about today because I'm sure it is related

-Boot up laptop. Blue screens with INVALID BOOT VOLUME
-I boot off CD and run chkdsk.
-Load up windows and I get the following error

Limited Virtual Memory
"Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small."

-Set it manually to 1.5x of my physical memory. Rebooted and I get the same error.
-Set it to let windows manage. Rebooted and I get the same error.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas before I try a repair install.

[TheMasterRat]

Try booting off the CD into the recovery console and removing c:\pagefile.sys ( or wherever yours is )

It may have corrupted itself completely.

Option B : Drop laptop off with me. Never return :D

Seems to be a number of Tucsonans poppin up around here lately.

Also, verify that the SYSTEM account has FULL CONTROL on the root of the C: if you are using NTFS.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;315270

[HHunt]

Also sounds like windows might have lost track of what drive letters belong where.

My abolutely most hated windows failure is related:
Do something with the partition table. [1] See windows fail in new, interesting, and often unrecoverable ways when it decides that it should shuffle drive letters semirandomly. This usually includes "could not create swap file" or similar.

So, does everything appear to be on the right drive letters?



[1] Or don't, which is the most frustrating version.

[Ranma_Sao]

Make sure the disk isn't slowly going bad either. I've seen this error be a side effect of a disk slowly failing.

[Stupendous]

Yeah I hope this disk isn't going bad because the warranty is up.

As far as the problem goes. . . More problems surfaced, related to dlls. Tried two repairs, both failed giving an error with dynamically linking a library.

Time to format C:. Such a pain. Wish I had a more recent ghost.

[Miszt]

Try the repair, off the XP CD, if that doesnt work, one word, Reinstall (good ol windoez lol)