Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:44:26 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS...
Hello Everyone... In search of Large Hard Drive installation information I have read the entire archives of the this site for all years. Amazing amount of information. This is the best site I have seen for information on Libretto. I appreciate the thoroughness of so many people here. The Story with some specs... I have had a 20gig Toshiba drive (MK2016GAP) in my 110CT for a few years now. It has 64meg/ram running Windows 98SE. Originally to install the drive I used EZ Drive and a desktop PC to duplicate the original drive (a 4gig) with only one partition. I quickly found data corruption. After three times of having to re-duplicate my original 4gig drive back to the 20gig I realized it was after hibernation that this occurred. SO, three questions... One... When hibernation corruption occurs, does it or should it not, also destroy formatting? I ask because my computer has hibernated by accident 4 times now and I can run Scandisk in Windows (98SE) OR Scandisk in DOS and neither finds ANY problems with the drive. This is not consistent with what I have read, or maybe I am missing something. I was running NO drive overlay at all when this occurred. Two... In an attempt to be able to use hibernation, EZ BIOS has been installed/enabled. Scandisk has been run in DOS and in Windows and everything seems fine. Also, I filled the drive with data to make sure writes could occur to the end of the disk, they can. Is there a way I can verify it is safe to allow hibernation? This is what is shown in the EZ Drive (9.09) Utility Information now... Drive Defaults 38760, 16, 63, 20005 Drive Currently 16383, 16, 63, 8455 EDPT Actual 38760, 16, 63, 20005 EDPT Apparent 2432, 255, 63, 20005 EZ-BIOS Int 13h 1025, 255, 63, 8431 ROM BIOS Int 13h 1018, 255, 63, 8373 Three... I am only experimenting with the current 20 gig drive because I duplicated it to a 100gig Toshiba (MK1032GAX) successfully with Western Digitals Data Lifeguard Tools. (Version 11 for DOS I think). EZ Drive9 did not display the 100gig drive properly in the 100CT or in the Desktop, so I didn't try to use it for duplication. One thing I didn't see in Data Lifeguard Tools was how to enable "EZ BIOS" or whatever it calls its drive overlay now, manually for the 100gig drive. Is there a way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Because of a complex configuration in Windows, re-installing the OS is not a reasonable undertaking. That is why I rely on drive duplication. I am unable to trim my current configuration down to under 8 gig to allow for the Dual Partition with space between them in the 8gig area. Besides that, I prefer one large drive due to the nature of the large databases I work with. Thank you, John Martin
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