Raid 1 Reconstruction- No Paging File

[marcal]

 Originally my OS (Win 2k SP4) ran on a Raid1 Sata array. The raid controller card failed and I had to get a new one.  Using your tools I got the original OS cloned onto another PATA drive. I can boot windows from the PATA drive and it runs fine.
 I got a new raid controller card, set up a new array, and cloned from the PATA drive onto the new raid1 mirror set.
 Now when I try to start Windows from the new raid1 set, after login I get the message "Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small". This just keeps repeating and windows will not start up.
 From some threads I've read elsewhere this apparently has something to do with drive letters changing and the GUID stored in the windows registry. I hesitate to try any of the methods mentioned on the other forums until I hear from some "real" experts.
 Can you suggest a method and some tools to get past this point? I have DP and iRecover and BartPE and HDTools etc etc.

Best Regards,
Mark M.
 

[marcal]

 After hours and hours of searching and reading I've worked this out. As it turns out this is really a windows registry issue not data recovery. However I wouldn't have gotten to this point without the DIY tools and info from this forum. 
 Some others may run into this as a post-data recovery issue.
Since I had a good PATA drive to boot into windows the issue is really how to transfer that copy of windows to another HD. (my Raid1 in this case)

1. First I made sure I had a good paging file on the PATA boot drive.
2. Using regedit export a backup copy of the registry.
3. Using regedit I navigated to  HKLM/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/:
4. Delete all keys which look like "\DosDevice\<DRIVE_LETTER>:"
5. Close windows and boot system from a BartPE bootable CD.
6. Using File MGR  in the PE environment copy all files on  PATA drive to the Raid1 mirror drive.
7. Close down PE and reboot system from the Raid1 drive.
8. Eureka! it worked

 I don't really know why deleting the \DosDevice\ keys from the registry caused this work. The keys were recreated after restarting windows.

 I hope this may help someone else who gets hit with the ctrl-alt-delete Paging file error loop problem.

Cheers,
Mark

[Joep]

Hello,

Thanx for that!