Limited Virtual Memory

[natbeys]

i get this message when i start win2000:
Limited Virtual Memory
your system has no paging file or the paging file is too small.
1)Right-click my computer, click properties, and then click the advanced tab.
2)click on the performance options button, and then click on the change button, under drive [Volume Lable] select the drive you want.
3)To create a new paging file, click the intial size(MB) Box, and then type a paging file size.
-Or-
To increase the paging file size, click on the Maximum size (MB) box and then type a larger paging file size.
when you finished, click set, and then click ok.

i do all this but still i get this error msg. i have two os installed one on c is win98(fat32) and other on d drive is win2000(ntfs).

[krohnjw]

How large is your page file?
Also check the Virtual Memory in taskmgr -> view -> select columns and see if something is gobbling virtual memory.

[John Prophet]

Is your hard drive totally full??

[hansbroken]

I had the same exact problem using a budget 20 Gig Comp USA HD (made by Maxtor on the box a documentation, but was actually a Quantum Fireball printed on the HD label - go figure.

The problem started about 2 months after a Win 2K clean install. I would do the change as instructed by Windows to the page file. And after re-booting, it would revert back to the same settings & same problems. My 20 gig HD had at least 70% free HD space at the time. Adding RAM did not help too much either (increased from 512 MB to 768 MB). And system would lock up a lot.

After tons of time wasted playing around with it, I installed a new WD 40 Gig HD, formatted it using the NTFS (using default settings for the max amount) and did a clean install and all problems went away. Latter on, I did the same thing to the 20 Gig drive (re-format and clean install) and it still had the problem, despite the fact that Maxblast utilities stated there were no HD errors.

Latter on I found out it did have a lot of scattered bad sectors – and this was after the 1 year warranty was up. The whole time Maxtor’s support kept telling me it’s Windows or my MB controller.

Other factors to consider though -- as stated above - if the HD is too full that may cause this as well. Or if the two formats were not partitioned and formatted correctly (fat 32 and NTFS), that can cause errors too.

So try to swap out the HD and do a clean install. That's a PIA, but better than wasting time on it.

BTW, what MB and HD are you using?

[pgriffet]

Take a look here : http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=242447

[HeadBand]

based on what hans said you may need to scandisk and defrag

[skisby]

Problem:

When I boot Win 2000 in either Normal or in Safe Mode, and before I can log in, I get the following error message:

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Limited Virtual Memory
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Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small.
1. Right-click My Computer, click Properties, and then click the Advanced tab.
2. Click on the Performance Options button, and then click on the Change button.
Under Drive [Volume Label], select the drive you want.
3. To create a new paging file, click the Initial Size (MB) box, and then type a
paging file size.
-Or-
To increase the paging file size, click the Maximum Size (MB) box, and then type
a larger paging file size. When you have finished, click Set, and then click OK.

When I click OK I get the same error message again and can't log in. Because I can't login, I can't follow the procedure in the error message. The C: drive was formatted FAT32.

Solution:

1. Boot with a Win 98SE bootable diskette (or CD)
2. At the DOS A: prompt type fdisk /mbr
3. When the DOS A: prompt returns, remove the bootable diskette (or CD)
4. Reboot the Win 2000 system drive (C:)

Steve Kisby