Windows Can't Load

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chungacs

My acer notebok has windows xp Media Center Edition 5.1
Recently on start up i am always brought to a screen saying:

FAT32, one of your disk need to be checked for consistency. Windows is
verifying files and folders.....

When the disk check reaches about 60%, the following message appears and the
system hangs:-

"The \pagefile.sys entry contains an invald link. The size of the
\pagefile.sys entry is not valid. \windows\dumpf637.tmp is cross-linked on
allocation unit 387879."

Bypassing disk checking , however, could properly load windows alright. It
is only when i allow disk chcking to carry through that the above problem
appears.

Can anyone please kindly help? TIA

chungacs
 
Try deleting the pagefile and see if things improve.

See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172340/en-us

Disregard the symptoms section, it doesn't apply to you, just do the
resolution part. The article was written for NT3.51 & 4.0 but it still
applies to XP, except that there are minor difference in the details, at
step #1 disregard the first sentence, simply read:

1. If you have a FAT partition, boot to DOS, and delete the
Pagefile.sys. If you have an NTFS partition, try to log back on as
administrator.


At step #3 you have to do a few extra click to get to the pagefile
settings, do this instead:

3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Performance.
At the Performance Options click on the Advanced tab again then click on
the "Change" button in the Virtual Memory section


At step #7 simply set the pagefile to "System managed size", do not
follow link to 99768, that information is obsolete for XP, and obviously
disregard step #8.

John

PS: coluldn't find a similar article for XP, that is why I offered the
NT3.51 version. Also, being that you are using a FAT32 file system the
article nicely fits your needs.
 
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