Can't ghost pagefile and W2K wont create new pagefile

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Ed Stepans

After a recent Windows 2000 service pack or hotfix
upgrade, Norton Ghost 2000 stopped working because
pagefile.sys was not transferred to the target drive. A
brand-new version of Copy Commander (terrible software,
btw) has the same problem. Windows 2000 is supposed to set
up a small pagefile.sys if necessary to allow the system
to boot up and then allow the user to set a properly-sized
pagefile. However, every time I try to start Windows 2000
without a pagefile, it simply cycles back to the "Warning:
virtual memory too small" warning screen which describes
how to re-set the pagefile instead of going forward with
the bootup sequence.
 
Connect remotely or put the HDD into another W2k computer and delete
everything from HKLM\System\MountedDevices. Reboot.
 
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Connect remotely or put the HDD into another W2k computer and delete
everything from HKLM\System\MountedDevices. Reboot.
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OK, but how do I get the registry editor to edit the
registry on the afflicted drive, rather than the registry
on the Win2k computer's on which the afflicted drive is
mounted? (Right now the afflicted drive is mounted as a
slave on the computer from which I want to ghost over the
the partitions.)

BTW, does it make any difference whether the file system
is is FAT32 or NTFS? Up till now I've been keeping my
stuff in FAT32 in case I wanted to go backwards and/or use
legacy systems or software, but I've realized there's no
need to and I'm planning on converting over to NTFS with
convert.exe.
 
Run regedt32, then drill down to HKLM, open menu File and choose Load
hive.... Drill down to {slavediskletter}:\WINNT\system32\config and load
system hive; Name it anyhow and edit its MountedDevices. Do not forget to
Unload hive... at the end.
File system makes sense depending on the base system OS, i.e. whether it's
W9x or NT.
 
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