Copy one Hard Drive to another - problem -

I am in the process of copying from my old WD 40 GB drive to a new WD 80 GB hard drive.

I set up the WD80 as the Primary Slave and used Partition Magic to do the Fdisk and Formating. I set it to a Primary partition (not active) and no drive letter and formatted it to NTFS.

I then used Drive Image to copy my WD40 (C: ) to the WD80 (D: ) including the MBR & PageFile.sys. When it was finished I shut down and plugged in the WD80 into the Primary Master and left out the old hard drive (WD40).

It could not boot since it was not the active partition so I used the Partition Magic rescue disk and from DOS used Partition Magic to set it as active and rebooted.

Windows 2000 starts to open and when it gets to the "Loading Personal Preferences" pop up window I get this ERROR:
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Limited Vertual 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 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.

[OK button]
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When I click the OK button the "Loading Personal Preferences" pop up window come back on for a second and the same Error window pops up. This happens over and over again.

If windows will NOT complete booting how can I make sure the paging file is correct?

Any ideas?

THANKS,
John

 

I think two things I'd try:

1. Recovery console and delete the pagefile. Reboot and hopefully the OS will create a nice, new one for you. If it still fails to start

2. Boot to the recovery console again and use the fixmbr command on the drive.

 

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately that didnt do it.

I ended up finding a fix for it on the symantec support site.

thanks again for your help.

 

hellmaster -
What was the solution? I'm having the same issue.. I tried pulling it from Symantec's site, but the site keeps timing out on the search. Thanks in advance.

-forget it ... I just found it another way. Thanks for posting this!