Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:55:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 20GB experience + a few questions
> How can I find where Libretto hibernates before I loose any data???????
One easy way is to get a program that'll write a series of 1's to the HD
from just after oh, let's say, the first 2GB of HD to the end of the HD.
You then hibernate, then run a HD hex editor over the entire space looking
for anything other than pure 1's.
Then, simply create a hibernation space that size and a couple MB bigger just
in case.
> 2 Another weird problem happened to me which may explain my first problem.
> I was urged to get some data from a friend's desktop so I hibernated Win2k,
> went from hibernation. The files were not there! Actually I suppose that
> Win2k keeps all filetables in memory and on some occasions may restore them
> to drive after standby/hibernation. Can anybody confirm this?
No idea here. But I'd start with shutting down the entire OS first before I'd
pull any HD. Not a very bright idea to pull a hibernated HD unless you'd want
a messed up HD.
> 3 I am going to use System Commander to switch from Win2k to Win98. Are
> there any hidden problem to ghost in this particular case?
Ghost should be able to backup the entire partition w/o any problems. It
doesn't care because system commander works on the MBR, outside of the primary
partition either OS resides in.
> 4 What is the better choice Ghost or Drive Image? I have one point for Drive
> Image: it can verify integrity of allocation tables of all drives before
> dumping partition.
For myself, I still go with Ghost. It has never failed, does the job, and
works over the parallel port just in case I have no working floppy or CD-ROM
drives in my PC (just as long as I can boot and get Ghost running that is..).
However, I have used both to backup and restore HDs and they work just the
same in the important aspects, but to me, it seems Ghost is more intuitive to
me and works faster.
Both have added the latest feature of going directly to CD-RW drives, but I
haven't yet tested this feature.
> Did anyone managed to save partition directly to NTFS disk? DI docs say it
I wouldn't think this to be likely, even with any 3rd party NTFS enabler.
d =)
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