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I'm unable to view/delete pagefile.sys using the recovery console.
John Savill
March 28, 2000
1 Min Read
A. A bug exists in Windows 2000 recovery console that does not displayor let you delete pagefile.sys. The workaround is to copy another file to bepagefile.sys which will then expose the true file allowing it to be deleted:
Boot into Recovery Console.
Because you boot into the %SystemRoot% folder (most commonly the C:Winnt folder), type the following command
cdType the following command to overwrite the existing Pagefile.sys file with Boot.ini:
copyc:boot.ini pagefile.sysType the following command:
del pagefile.sysAfter you copy Boot.ini over to Pagefile.sys, Pagefile.sys appears in the directory listing.
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