Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:13:36 +1200 From: Simon Shuker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Long 1050 hard drive upgrade story; suspend partition question Well, my annoyance at having a smaller hard-drive on my 1050 than my 70 led me to reduce my new toy to many small pieces and acquire a blister in the process, but I have now upgraded the original HDD that came with the 1050, and it was not as simple a thing as I would have liked. The hard-drive in the 1050 (and 1100 and 1100V I suppose) turned out to be the same height as my L70 (9.5mm?), but the design of the 1050 made the upgrade a lot more difficult than my 70 upgrades. The 1050 has made it easier to increase the memory (just under the little memory hatch underneath) and easier to check on the hard-drive top (just remove the keyboard retainer - no screws - lift up the keyboard, and there's the top and label of the hard-drive. Unfortunately the actual removal of the hard-drive is nowhere near as easy as the simple "undo two screws on the case, pull on the little handle" jobby on the L70. What it entails is more of a "remove all nine screw holding the cases together (and memory in), pry apart the top and bottom of the case, undo a retainer screw at the side of the hard-drive (the entire HDD is of course held securely in a sturdy wee metal cage by four screws), remove bottom of case, undo two screws through PCB up into hard-drive, remove four screws holding hard-drive in cage, do whatever swappy process you deem necessary and reverse the entire process as you put it all back together." Oh yeah, and don't forget to look under the keyboard and re-attach the little connector under there, otherwise once everything is reassembled and power re-supplied the lid won't be connected -ie. no little power LEDs, no activation on power switch, small heart murmur etc. And just for good luck, the two screws holding the hard-drive to the pcb are _securely_ retained within the hard-drive through the use of loc-tite, resulting in overly forceful board handling on my part, and the arrival of the previously mentioned blister on my finger, due to the jeweller's scr ewdriver I was using not generating enough torque and staying stationary while my hand spun around it. On the upside though, it's done now, and I got to open and close my new Libretto a couple of times. As I was working under a bit of a time pressure (I started swapping the 6.4G from my L70 with the 3G from the 1050 at about 11pm, as the 70 was about to head off on another world tour in the morning - unfortunately this time with somebody else) I didn't do the job quite as thoroughly as I normally would - ie I didn't have a desk-top handy, just the two Libretto's, two relatively full hard drives (one running w95 and one w98) and an ez-gig pcmcia HDD card. Thus I didn't format the drives in their respective machines as I would normally do, but just made a wholesale switch of the files from one machine to the other. My question is this - I think the L70 should be sorted, because there was probably a 96M suspend partition already existing at the end of the (originally in the 1050) HDD, and just for good measure I reduced the size of the active partition by around 35M. Suspend seemed to work OK and not foul everything up. The 1050 on the other hand I'm not so sure about. The HDD was formatted in the L70, so would have only a 32M suspend partition at the end, leading to possible complications when I try to suspend/hibernate the 96M of 1050 RAM (an option which is deactivated for the interim). I previously had suspend and the old "fuzzy lightbulb" working at the same time and wouldn't mind returning to that condition (I found my w98 version of Mr lightbulb on the japanese drivers disk, but had to deactivate the loading of TOSHIBSU.EXE at start-up for the suspend to work). So - I'm sure it's been explained before, but what is my best approach? Just pull back the current disk partitions to allow 96M after them? (Bearing in mind that the 1050 is currently my only machine, so partitioning from another machine/reformatting etc is not an option.) Thanks for your help, Simon ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
