{"id":177,"date":"2004-10-15T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/windows-2000-xp-2003-fails-to-start-after-manipulating-partitions-in-bootit-bm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:29:47","slug":"windows-2000-xp-2003-fails-to-start-after-manipulating-partitions-in-bootit-bm","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/windows-2000-xp-2003-fails-to-start-after-manipulating-partitions-in-bootit-bm\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 Fails to Start after Manipulating Partitions in BootIt BM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article applies if you have performed a copy, slide, or move operation on your&nbsp;Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition, and now your Windows installation fails to start. Windows may have one or both of the following symptoms:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Upon trying to log in, you see the &quot;Loading your personal settings&quot; dialog, but then get kicked back to the &quot;Welcome to Windows&quot; dialog without ever getting to the Windows Desktop.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>You see an error message that says &quot;Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small.&quot; <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n  <p>If this applies to you, please refer to the following Microsoft support document:<\/p>\r\n  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=249321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed<\/a><\/p>\r\n  <p>Here are some possible solutions, in addition to those&nbsp;in the aforementioned Microsoft support document:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Undo the changes you made to your Windows partition (e.g. move it back).<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Use the <strong>Clear Sig<\/strong> function in BootIt BM.&nbsp; Please refer to the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 is Assigning the Wrong Drive Letter to a Partition<\/a> for more information. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul><hr id=\"null\" \/>\r\n  <p>Please refer to the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Prevent Boot Problems When Manipulating a Bootable Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 Partition<\/a> if you are planning to copy, slide, or move a Windows partition, from which you will later boot.&nbsp; The advice in that article can help prevent problems booting later on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article applies if you have performed a copy, slide, or move operation on your&nbsp;Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition, and now your Windows installation fails to start. Windows may have one or both of the following symptoms: Upon trying to log in, you see the &quot;Loading your personal settings&quot; dialog, but then get kicked back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2147,2145,2146],"class_list":["post-177","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2k","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/177\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}