Re: [LIB] HD upgrade

[Matthew Hanson]

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:03:11 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] HD upgrade

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you for all the replies. Very helpful. I did look at David's site
> and now I'm totally confused. Let me quote ... > <snip>
>

Hopefully David will respond to this post, too, but this info (the second
part about space at the end of the drive) appears contrary to a post he just
made today in answer to your question, and is contrary to his very
comprehensive testing and conclusions using an L100CT and a Hitachi (?) 20GB
HDD.

Yeah... that's really off-base with any HDD >8GB! As Lee wrote, if you want to put a >8GB HDD in your Libretto, you pretty much >have< to install the drive overlay. Some people have tried to argue that their copies of W2K manage the large drives without the overlay. True in part. But it's the BIOS in the Libby's that managea the drive space for hibernation. And that's going to be at the end of that 8GB BIOS limit no matter >what< your OS thinks.

> Or just to be in the safe side, just block of both cylinders 1010-1040 and
> 100mb at the end of the drive? BTW, could someone describe to me how to
> block off these on EZDrive? I will only be buying my hard drive over the
> weekend and will see / use EZDrive for the first time only by then.


Don't need to reserve any space at the end of the drive. EZBIOS uses FDISK,
so you can wrestle with that if you want to, or use one of the no-data-loss
partitioning packages like Partition Magic, Ranish, others I can't recall
right now. I would set up the entire drive as one FAT32 partition with
EZBIOS, install Windows, then install partitioning software and set it up as
you'd like. Just avoid hibernation before re-partitioning.

If you don't have DOS partitioning software to create the partitions properly at the beginning of the HDD setup, you can use FDISK esiely enought to make an initial 2-4GB working partition at to install Windows onto. Then you won't have to worry about accidently hibernating. It will give you a partition to load a Windows partition software to do the rest, and at the same time you'll conserve file space in the end by using a smaller partition, and thus smaller clusters with less wasted file space.

But there ought to be free, or workable shareware to do the work in DOS at the bigging of the process if you prefer. It'll work either way.

Hopefully David, Neil, Raymond, Pres, or Fran will weigh in on this soon...

Yeah, >Raymond<! He's usually the first to hop into these issues these days. Do I recall his saying something about being away for a while?

Matt


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