Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:14:14 -0500 From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted
Hi Raymond, Thanks for the response... I've given up on keeping my 8gb windows intall. I've gone ahead and intalled IBM disk manager (couldn't find the ez-drive posts you mentioned) and let it create one 8gb partition. Interesting that when I went to install version 9.5.7 it wanted to create one partition of 39.9gb (ie it saw the whole drive) but I went back to 9.4.3 which created one partition of 8gb (ie it only saw the bios limited part) and then upgraded to 9.5.7 for the heck of it. Now I've got my 8gb partition, I've got my overlay, and when I boot up fdisk sees the whole drive. I guess I understand a little bit more about how these overlays work now. I guess they install an additional 8k at the beginning of the drive, and then trick the BIOS into thinking it's not there? Now, the way I used to do it was pop the drive into my linux desktop, and manually create the second partition skipping about 80MB or so for the hibernation partition. I didn't have a problem the last time I did it, but that doesn't necesarily mean anything. Am I going to have problems since I'm modifying the partition table with an OS that's not running through the overlay? How else do I create a second partition while skipping the hibernation space? The dos fdisk is so retarded I can't even make more than one primary partition even though I know that the DOS partition table allows for up to 4... all I can do is create an extended partition, and there can only be one, and I'm sure it will create it in the "bad place" at the end of the 8gb... I've actually got a backup of my win98 install, I'll post a separate message asking for help on how to restore it! Thanks a ton for the responses! David On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:09:23PM -0800, Raymond wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:31 +0800 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted > > At 10:09 AM 18/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:07:26 -0500 > >From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Overlay program wanted > > > >Hi All, > > > >I'm upgrading my HD to a 40 gb. I've got Win98 loaded and running on an > >8gb partition, and I'm all ready to add the overlay and be able to access > >the remainder of the drive. I've used IBM Disk Manager before, but it has > >a horribly cryptic menu system. The only options that would seem to make > >sense, are to convert the drive to their proprietary format (what does that > >mean?) or to let it blow away my partition table and recreate it. > > I'm using EZ-Bios 9.06W by Micro House International (it did ship for > Western Digital but it doesn't seem to mind the Fujitsu I've got) and have > had it work nicely on both my L50 and L100. Somewhere in the archives are 2 > speals by me on how to get it all working with various setups (for instance > I'm now using in with a 20 gig Fujitsu, triple booting Win98SE, Red Hat > Linux 6.2 and Win2k, all accessing the hard drive through the overlay). I > did run into a few pitfalls which you may like to avoid! Search for > ezdrive.zip or ezdrv909.zip in the archives. Note that EZ-DRIVE > distribution version 9.09W actually contains EZ-BIOS version 9.06W ... go > figure ... hehe > > Just remember that once it's on there, any time you modify the partition > table, you *must* have booted from the hard drive and loaded EZ-Bios. > Forgetting to do this is a sure way of screwing up the partition tables as > everything will be offset by 8KBytes. Also, whilst it *is* possible to > install it and not destroy your current partitioning scheme, in my > experience unless it's a stock standard partitioning scheme, it's better to > install it and get it to blow everything away. Oh and remember to leave > space for hibernation at between 1010 and 1040 cylinders! > > > Hope this helps! > > - Raymond > > --- > > > /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ > | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | > | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. 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