Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:34:09 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto HD Upgrade - Hibernation Area - Questions and Outline
Hello Everyone... I have a few questions/ideas relative to hibernation on the Libretto 110CT. I understand that BIOS Hibernation on the Libretto is unable to see a drive larger than 8.4 gig. I also understand that BIOS Hibernation can not be completely disabled on the Libretto. My understanding is that Libretto BIOS Hibernation can be executed completely independently of the OS. Thermally or via detection of low battery are the two ways individuals from this website have stated. Procedure: Duplication of Windows 98 from a single partition 20gig drive to a 100gig Toshiba Drive. With two issues. Issue 1. Leaving the BIOS Hibernation space around the 8.4gig area of the drive, between partitions one and two. Issue 2. Preservation of my current full Windows Installation. No overlay necessary or used. Basically I want to do a hard drive upgrade with partition split AND "space" to accommodate the hibernation area around the 8.4Gig area of the drive. These are my questions... Question 1. How does the Libretto decide "where" to put the hibernation area. example: Go to end of HDD (or as much as it can see 8.4) and write the contents backwards or just back up and start to write towards the end? (direction likely doesn't make difference) example: Go to end of partition and write hibernation data? Question 2. I do not have a utility to examine the hard drive data to locate the cylinders where hibernation is being written, though I have seen were several have done just that. There is ONE 20Gig partition on my current working drive. So... Does anyone see why the following installation would not work. a. Put Original (20Gig Toshiba) HDD and new HDD (100Gig Toshiba) into a desktop computer with modern BIOS to correctly see all of both hard drives. b. Booted from OnTrack Disk Manager floppy disk. Defined the three following partitions with OnTrack Disk Manager on the Toshiba 100Gig Drive. 7.9GB (Boot and Windows Drive) 500MB (For spacer) 91MB (or to end of visible drive) Note: I chose 500 meg to space the beginning of the 91MB partition theoretically outside where the Libretto BIOS Hibernation routines can see. c. Rebooted into Windows Safe Mode from Boot Menu of Functional 20Gig Drive, which contains my original Working Windows Partition with configuration and data trimmed below 8gig. Opened a DOS Box and executed XClone program to duplicate the only partition on HDD 1, C: (20 gig drive) onto the first partition (7.9gig) of HDD2. (Although not documented, while XClone doesn't work in DOS, it does work in Windows Safe Mode... or more accurately, I have used it in Windows Safe Mode several times with no issues. I have never had any failure with XClone) d. Loaded Fdisk and deleted the 500MB partition of HDD 2 between the 7.9GB and 91GB partitions. I realize this should not be necessary, but I chose to do it anyway just to simulate "space" at the end of my partition. Also keep it from accidentally being formatted or used in some way. Status: No problems at this time. As stated above, I do not know how to verify if it is hibernating in the area I left blank. Although I have read the archives, I do not know or have any of the utilities described to locate the hibernation data. Any suggestions that anyone cares to offer about this installation would be appreciated. Thank you, John Martin
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