Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] David's Hitachi 20GB HDD
> left them on some partition, or copied them to CD-R disks. But I seem to be > either the only one, or one of few who can set up a CD-ROM driver to enable Just give me a second here with my new 'used' ebay.com HP M820e... > Okay... after the 8.4GM boundary, but "two partitions ... for data beyond > the 20GB point.." seems like a physical impossibility, since there should be > nothing beyond 20GB on a 20GB HDD. But then I always wonder if there might Oops! Faded brain freeze. 2 partitions after the 8.4GB point. > > HD partition > > =Start of HD= > > 250 MB DOS primary bootable partition (hidden) > > 4GB Win98SE primary bootable partition (active) > > 4GB or so of non-partitioned space, all the way up to and beyond > >the 1024 cylinder area where the hibernation partition resides. > > 8GB or so, extended logical data partition > > 4GB or so, extended logical data partition > > =End of HD= > > Okay... this makes things a bit more clear. From what you'd written, I'd > lost track of how many partitions you had before 8.6GB, and where they were. > > I see you leave your 'backup' 250MB partition at the beginning of the drive > space, and use the 2nd 4GB part. For your primary bootable part. & OS. True. That's 250MB (partition 1, primary hidden bootable) & 4GB (partition 2, primary bootable active). > I've > always made the first partition the primary bootable active partition out of > habit, as I've always heard that Windows prefers to be there. Nope. Anywhere under the 8.4GB boundary is fine for Windows 9x. (other OSs have different limits, see System Command or Partition Magic help for this point.) > But I assume > you're using S.C. and/or P.M., and in that case, maybe Windows doesn't care > so much where it is. Nope. SC & PM not installed at all, nor any boot managers. Windows can go anywhere <8.4GB. Just you can't put it elsewhere with Fdisk, have to use PM or another program to move it about. > If that's right, then using standby should do the same thing that > hibernating does, but a bit faster I'd think since RAM is written to the not the same. Standby keeps everything in memory (RAM) but the CPU and system only goes into a low-power mode. In Hibernate, everything in RAM is written to HD, then the machine turns off completely. Only Hibernate has the Libretto writing to disk picture. Can be hardware initiated (eg. Power Button Press) or software auto-initiated. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
