Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:18:26 +0200
From: Kapusta Gerhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AW: HDD Replacement
Hi David!
> > Does a Win 2k install then sort out all the BIOS and
> hibernation issues, or
> > do I have to do any of the partitioning stuff???
>
> It'll see the entire HD, but nobody yet running Win2K has
> verified exactly
> where the hibernation partition information is stored. Nor
> with Disk Manager
> programs. (anybody out there do any tests?)
This is not true, I have done it!
Here is an excerpt from a posting, which I have sent several times to this
list:
> What I found out about installing HD's > 8GB and hibernating:
> - Install the big disk
> - use DOS Fdisk to create partitions
> - use an operating system which does not use the BIOS for
> disk acccess to
> partition the rest of the HD. I used Win2k. Leave the amount
> of RAM + the
> amount of graphic memory free on the end of the existing
> partitions (should
> be near the 8G boarder) and create a new partition and fill
> it with data.
> - force hibernating by BIOS (may be done in DOS!) and check
> whether the
> partition above the 8G is destroyed. If the partition is
> destroyed, make the
> empty space a little bigger and test again. Note that
> partition boarders are
> only possible at Zylinder boarders.
> - Use a tool to look at the partitions, sectors, zylinders to
> understand the
> correspondence (g.g. DISKMAP from WinNT4 Res Kit or Partition Magic.
>
> Once You know, how to partition the disk, you dont have to do this
> time-comsuming method to find it out! But write down your results...
>
> For a Lib 110 with 64MB RAM and a IBM 20GB disk the
> hibernation partition
> starts at zylinder 1018, size is 9 zylinders. Within Win2k it
> is neccessary
> to allocate 71MB free space for hibernating.
regards
Gerhard
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