Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:53:15 +0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BIOS hibernate on big HDD [LIB]
> 1) Walk the disk with WinHex to find out where the hibernation data is > actually being stored on your HD vs. partitions. Easiest if you open > notepad and type in a unique text string to search on, eg "Librettos > are wonderful!". Unfortunately(!) I don't have WinHex. > 2) Win2K after maximum partitioning may have just jumped over the BIOS > end-of-8.4GB hibernation area. Don't know until you test and see. A scary thought. I would like to do this test if anyone can tell me how to do it. > 3) Just because the scandisk/whatever finds the HD to be intact doesn't > mean the data is. Yes, I found this - after hibernating, scandisk/whatever often declared the partition in which the hibernation data had overwritten the test data to be problem free - but the test data was thoroughly trashed, even though the file names, sizes, and all the other file details were intact. If you don't reserve the relevant space, you could well have significant data corruption and not realise it until much later. > do a binary file compare of the files vs. the originals to make sure. Unfortunately I've no idea how to do a "binary file compare". However, I did fill the partition with .JPGs such that zero bytes remain free, and did a crude (but I think effective?) check that way. ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
