[RESOLVED] problem with adding seconde hard drive

Today I had a wonderful experience.

I added a second IDE hard drive to a Windows 2000 Server system. Trying to be quick I went into "My Computer" and reformatted it NTFS from there. W2K asked for a reboot so I did.

Upon reboot, after entering password, a message pops up saying there is no cache file or its too small. clicl OK and continue, hoping to resize it. after a few seconds I get another message saying a service or driver(s) didn't load please check Event Viewer. Right after that it starts saving the settings and goes back to the login prompt. Safe Mode same situation.

Was I being to lazy by not using disk manager? Or is there a problem here?

Is your boot partition bigger than 8GB.

Have you unplag the HD , and see what happens.

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Mr. B

a good idea is to open Disk Administrator and check for any errors...

well I'm not sure what happened but here's a fix:

1. change the Swap File Size to "0" (my puter-> properties->advanced -? perf. options -> Change

init size: 0
max size : 0

Press okay all the way (do not reboot !)

2. open regedit

go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

change ClearPageFileAtShutdown to "1"

3. close regedit

4. reboot

5. change the Swap File Size to two times your RAM (my puter-> properties->advanced -? perf. options -> Change

for 256MB RAM

init size: 512
max size : 512

Press okay all the way - and Reboot

6. open regedit

go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

change ClearPageFileAtShutdown to "0"

7. close regedit and reboot


good luck


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