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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!robertre
- From: robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2)
- Subject: Re: Meanings of NT boot-up error codes?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug11.025804.23858@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 02:58:04 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <e9a96f71@tvnews.tv.tek.com> <18f67834@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org>
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- In article <18f67834@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg) writes:
- >Make shure that your hard disk has enough *contigous, unfragmented* disk space
- >to hold the paging file! After we had made enough room (>> 20 MB) and run
- >Norton Speed Disk, NT came up without any error message. So 20 MB of free hard
- >disk space for the swap file is one part of the game, the other is that this
- >space must be unfragmented.
-
- While I'm happy to hear that this solved your problem, there is
- no requirement that the space for the paging file be unfragmented.
- The paging file is just a file, honest.
-
- Of course, you may see better performance if your paging file
- can be on a nice contiguous area, but probably not much.
-
- I would suggesting just trying to have a fair chunk of free
- disk space (as mentioned >20M) available when first trying to
- boot the system. Once the page file is established, it will
- be overwritten on subsequent boots, so you don't have to worry
- about it after that.
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- Not even close to being a Microsoft spokesperson.
- Don't believe a word I say.
- Robert Reichel {decvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!microsoft!robertre
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