Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:20:57 -0700
From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hibernation Area Setup & Dual Boot OS Setup
Thanks Matt and Philip for your recent advice on getting my new 60 GB hard
drive working properly with EZ-Drive and about hibernation area setup.
Have some questions about properly setting up hibernation area and would
greatly appreciate some more advice.
Don't want to screw up my hard drive! It's working well at the moment (knock
on wood...).
Also, have question about dual boot setup for other OS'es....
1. HIBERNATION AREA SETUP
When you said to:
"set aside 71MB partition space around the 8 GB boundary so your Libretto
doesn't write over data there"
and referred to "hibernation area"
Are you saying that this needs to be an actual separate hard drive partition
??
With it's own drive letter (E:, etc) ??
Or is this just some special area you create on the partition I've already
created?
Below is a copy of my partition info report from PartitionMagic, so you can
see info on how drive is setup now:
PowerQuest PartitionInfo 8.0 -- Windows 95/98/Me Version
Date Generated: 06/03/04 10:56:12
General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 66,670,592
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 56,569,856
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 2,080,808,960
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 34,566,144
=========================================================================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 7295 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
Info: EZ-Drive is installed on this drive.
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
=========================================================================
0 0 00 1023 0 1 0F
1023 254 63 83,264,895 24,595,515
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 00 5183 0 1 0F
6713 254 63 83264895 24595515
0 1 80 0 1 1 0C
62 254 63 63 83,264,832
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 80 0 1 1 0C
5182 254 63 63 83264832
BACKUP 83,264,895 0 00 1023 1 1 0B 1023 254
63 83,264,958 24,595,452
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
83264895 0 00 5183 1 1 0B 6713
254 63 83264958 24595452
=========================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 57,223.7 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
=========================================================================
C: FAT32X Pri,Boot 40,656.7 0 1
63 83,264,832
ExtendedX Pri 12,009.5 0 0
83,264,895 24,595,515
Info: MBR Partition Table not in sequential order.
EPBR Log 12,009.5 None --
83,264,895 24,595,515
D:BACKUP FAT32 Log 12,009.5 83,264,895 0 83,264,958
24,595,452
Unallocated Pri 4,557.5 None --
107,860,410 9,333,765
=========================================================================
Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: FAT32)
=========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 64
5. Reserved Sectors: 34
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 83264832 (0x4F68540)
15. Big Sectors per FAT: 10163
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x40B6E61D
26. Volume Name:
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
=========================================================================
Boot Record for drive D: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 83,264,958, Type:
FAT32)
=========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 16
5. Reserved Sectors: 34
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 83264958 (0x4F685BE)
14. Big Total Sectors: 24595452 (0x1774BFC)
15. Big Sectors per FAT: 11999
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x40BB055F
26. Volume Name: BACKUP
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
Based upon the above, what should I do to create this hibernation area
properly. Please be explicit as I'm not an expert in this kind of thing!
2. DUAL (Or Tri) BOOT OS SETUP
Currently, have Win98SE installed as my OS.
Thought I'd use Win2K (or WinXP) on another partition and Linux on another
partition.
Unless fellow Libretterati think it would make more sense to put Win2K (or
WinXP) on my current partition and the Linux on another. Thus eliminating
Win98SE altogether.
So do I just use PartitionMagic to create another partition and then install
OS there? Or do I need to do some other setup things as in Item 1 above
regarding hibernation area, etc?
Thanks for any and all advice!
Everyone's been great on this list in the short time I've been here!
Having fun with my Libretto!!
Mark
Silicone Valley Libretterati
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