Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:42:32 -0700
From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Hibernation Area Setup & Dual Boot OS Setup

Will give this a shot David!

Thanks for all your help!!

Mark

on 6/8/04 2:53 PM, David Chien at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] Hibernation Area Setup & Dual Boot OS Setup
> 
>> 1. HIBERNATION AREA SETUP
>> Are you saying that this needs to be an actual separate hard drive partition
>> With it's own drive letter (E:, etc) ??
> 
> 
> No.  Simply leave it unpartitioned -- ie. unused.  Create your other
> partitions around this space.  Partition Magic and Ranish Partition Manager
> and
> Linux partitioning software can all do this for you.
> 
> If you do create a partition on this area, you can simply resize that
> partition using the above to move it outside of this hibernation area.
> 
>> 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
>> 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!
> 
> Here, the C: drive is too big (40GB) and overlays the 8GB boundary.  You'll
> have to resize it down <8GB.  Leave space after (eg. 128MB or more) for the
> hibernation data.  Then use the rest of the HD for the extended partition.
> 
> I can't say 'exactly' where the hibernation partition is since I believe it
> varies slightly depending on HD size and so forth, but if you leave the
> 1000-1100 cylinders free (try it, can't guarentee w/o testing), then you
> should
> be okay.
> 
> (Otherwise, you'll have to do what I did earlier -- wipe drive space between
> 7-9GB empty - zeros - hibernate - unhibernate - examine HD with WinHex and see
> where the hibernation data was written.)
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Simply avoid putting a partition on the 8GB area, and you can do the above
> just fine -- three primary partitions for the three OSs.  Doesn't matter and
> will work fine.
> 
> Rather excessive to have both W98 and W2k on the same computer however, so
> I'd just pick one or the other and not install both -- unless there's just
> some
> program you have that wants the other.




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