Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:21:16 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98 HDD hibernation location
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:42:21 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I followed David's instructions, repeated the test a few times, and > >found the beginning and ending sectors of the hiberation area: > > > > Beginning sector: 217916 of 514017 > > Ending sector: 285531 of 514017 > > Use WinHex and it'll tell you right away. Hmmm... I managed to find where on the WinHex it displayed the sector that the offset was on...but I couldn't find a reference to cylinder. I'll have another look. Though I see that the sectors are counted from 0 on each drive, and I know that P.M. told me that partition began at 1010 and ended at 1040, which was around 250MB. The hibernation area only took up about 14% of that space. > In any case, on the 20GB Hitachi in my L110, it's basically something >like 1015-103x cylinders, so I simply blocked off a little more and left >1010-1040cylinders free. I know we're only talking about a few MB of wasted space here... but it's more of a challange that anything else to figure exactly how the HDDs write data, and see if I can put the hibernation area right up against the walls of data partitions. I studied my nephew's Commadore 64's floppy disk drive manual years ago, but it's been a long time! Matt _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
