Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:50:28
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] New info re: large HDs w/Win9x or DOS & disk manager programs

>From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>7) !! No matter what, the ~8.4GB boundary area (and few MB around it) will 
>be
>overwritten by the hibernation data, even with a disk manager installed.  
>!!
>
>8) In my case, the sectors from 1018 cylinder to 1025 cylinder were 
>overwritten

Interesting - cylinder 1024 and 1025 (depending if you count the first as 
zero) are *above* the boundary...how on earth does the bios write into an 
area it can't see?

Neil

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