xp home wont boot. virtual memory problem Help!

[donjo13]

my dell 4500 wont boot. It goes throu the motions again and again saying not enough virtual memory. How can I correct this without being able to boot?

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Boot in safe mode, and make sure you have a pagefile.sys (virtual memory) on your PC.
Did you have that on another partition/harddisk and remove the HD/partition?

 

[donjo13]

When I enter via safe mode, I get the same results and message. Then it reboots again.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Follow the How to Repair if you can't boot Stickie on top of this forum.

 

[donjo13]

Thanks. I followed the instructions (did a repair on xp home from the XP disk as mentioned and described), and after it was all done, still the problem exists. Now what!

 

[RealBlackStuff]

See if this helps:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread22223.html

 

[donjo13]

I read that already and tried some of the stuff. I am going to have to put the drive in a D: drive as a slave and slide the pictures into the newly installed windows xp C: that I made. But I will have to load all the programs back because they wont work with out reloading most of them from CDs.