Hi...I came here through google search. I seem to have a same problme but of a different flavor. It's a ghost image of machine having dual partition of Win98(FAT32) and Win2kpro (NTFS). Sometimes ( and only sometimes), the image'd machine gives a problem when I boot to windows 2000 for the first time after the image download in complete. The Message 'No pagefile or pagefile too small' message appears after I attempt to logon and pushes me back to the logon screen. I am unable to logon. Nothing seems to get me into the system. Windows 98 partition works fine but can't see NTFS from there. Windows recovery console takes me to the NTFS dos prompt and there is no pagefile.sys. Not even after I search with the /a command. How can I recreate this pagefile.sys on this partition. I have tried all repair options after booting through the Windows 2000 original CD but of no avail. Thought of posting here and see if someone can give me a clue apart from re-installation. Thanks in advance. PS: All the machines are of exactly the same specs!

Control Panel >> System >> Advanced >> Performance (settings button) >> Advanced tab >> Virtual Memory (Change button). Set it to C: or whatever drive you are putting your OS onto.

I think you need to set the pagefile to none before you create the image. M2

You can start the W2k install and use the "repair" option. This worked when I ran into the same thing. I had not read about the "set pagefile to none" option, which may work, but I do know that if you run sysprep first then create your image you won't have this problem. I even read a solution of gain access to the W2K partition and delete the pagefile.sys file. The OS would recreate it. This did not work for me. The OS DID NOT recreate the pagefile.sys file. FYI

I know it's kinda late reply but took time to try all these options. something which people didn't notice is that the image works in some machines and doesn't in others. CurtR, your solution won't work if you re read my posting. I can't get into the system itself. Wanderer, I'll try to recreate the image next time with sysprep utility but does windows 2000 support sysprep. Anyways...the mystery is, why it works on some doesn't on others. I'll keep searching for solution and see if I hit something interesting. Thanks to all.

Magnet, As to why on some... I image my c: drive and w2k is set to pagefile on s: Presumably, if I put the image on a box that didn't HAVE an s: drive, it would error out. M2

You are right. I observed that. Actually on the master machine (from which I imaged my file) had two partitions. One C (for win98) and other E (for win2k). In between I had D:defined for CD drive. I checked the jumpers and cables on this machine where the image doesn't work. For some reason, the image is always assigning cd drive as E which was not the original assignment for CD drive on Master machine from which I created the image. If I can solve this problem of drive letter assignment, I am sure I can solve the pagefile problem too. But I have tried playing around with all the jumpers and cables on this machine, even made them exactly the same as on the working machine which I was successfully able to dump image on, but still the Drive Letter assignments on this one, doesn't seem to change. :(