Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 07:52:03
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Libretto 100CT owner
>Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:07:57 -0400
>From: Cray Drygu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: New Libretto 100CT owner
>
>At 06:37 PM 6/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >> installing the new one? Ones for the CD and floppy won't be an issue
>right
> >> away, since I plan on plugging the hard drive into my desktop, making
>it
> >> bootable, and copying the contents of the Windows CD to it.
> >
> > fdisk and format the HD in the Libretto first if it's <8GB!!!!!!
>Otherwise,
> >the hibernation partition won't have a space allocated correctly and data
>will
> >be overwritten.
>
>Hmm...good to know. I don't know why it should partition differently in a
>different machine, but I'll trust you =) Actually, I may not be putting it
>in my desktop at all, since I plan on getting a PCMCIA CD drive.
>
If you partition on a desktop machine, if you say 'yes' to the question 'use
all available space', that's what you'll get. If you do it on the libretto,
because it needs a space at the end of the drive to keep the hibernation
data on, the BIOS lies to dos regarding just how big 'all' is - so that bit
doesn't get allocated and is never written to.
If you don't do this, windows will work fine for days, weeks, or months
depending on how often you hibernate and how much data you save to disk -
but sooner or later a file will be in the same place as the hibernation
wants to be - and will find itself in an ass-kicking competition with a
centipede. The hibernation will work, but your data won't survive. Oh dear
:)
Once you've formatted in the lib, you can take the disk to another machine
because the partition table will indicate the size of the partitioned area,
and you'll only see the missing bit if you try and format it again. (In the
same way that a desktop disc can have eg half windows and half linux - dos
will only report on the windows bit of it).
Regards,
Neil
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