Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:49:07 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
no, that is wrong raymond. that is the hibernation area for dos which cannot see more than 8gig drive. Modern operating systems see a much larger drive and the area is moved to the end of the drive. you have to remember that as long as the computer has the power to write to the hard drive the OS rules not the bios!! john --- Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:29:16 +1000 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard > Drive Install > > John, I think you'll find the hibernation free space > (for BIOS hibernation > at least) needs to cover the 30 cylinders at the end > of the drive or > 1010-1040 cylinder range (well, a little less than > this), whichever comes > first. This occurs at around the 8GB point if the > drive is larger than 8GB > ... believe me, if you put this area at the end of a > 20 gig drive, the > moment the BIOS hibernation kicks in, weird things > happen to data in the > partition spanning this range as a friend of mine > found out! > > So whilst his free space is significantly larger > than it needs to be, it is > covering the right area ... > > - Raymond > > At 06:24 AM 29/03/2005 -0800, you wrote: > >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:22:56 -0800 (PST) > >From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard > Drive Install > > > >first off you have your hibernation free space in > the > >wrong place it should be at the end of the drive > and > >you need approximately 100MB of space. Next you > need > >to fix the mbr of the drive so windows will boot. > > > >john > > > >--- John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:26:11 -0800 > > > From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Please Help Me With New Hard Drive > Install > > > > > > The hard drive in my L110 is, I think, dying - > makes > > > loud clicking > > > noise frequently. So I stopped using the Lib, > then > > > bought a new 30GB > > > Samsung drive. > > > > > > I used Disk Management in Win XP to create two > > > partitions in the new > > > drive - the first (call it c:) from 0GB to > 7.5GB, > > > primary and active, > > > the second (call it d:) from 9GB to 30GB, > primary > > > and not active. I > > > left an unpartitioned area from 7.5GB to 9GB for > the > > > hibernation file > > > (more than needed, I think). > > > > > > I then used Norton Ghost to back up the primary > and > > > active partition of > > > the old drive (c:, where the OS lives and where > it > > > boots from) to the > > > drive of my desktop. Then I used Norton Ghost > to > > > restore that backup > > > to the primary and active partition (c:) of the > new > > > drive. > > > > > > I installed the new drive in my Lib and booted > up. > > > Result? "Disk > > > error press any key to restart". > > > > > > What step have I overlooked? I hope to avoid > having > > > to install Win XP > > > and all my apps from scratch, because that is > such a > > > tedious process. > > > I had the Lib set up exactly as I wanted it. > > > > > > By the way, I used the backup-then-restore > process > > > rather than cloning, > > > because I couldn't get my desktop to see both > the > > > old and new drives at > > > once, even when I had them both plugged in - > they > > > were on the same IDE > > > cable using 40-to-44 pin adapters. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Make Yahoo! your home page > >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > --- > > > /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ > | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" > | > | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I > backup?" | > | /__/ > +-------------------------------------------| > | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on > DALNet! | > | ICQ: 31756092 | www.raybot.net > | > \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
