Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:29:16 +1000 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
John, I think you'll find the hibernation free space (for BIOS hibernation at least) needs to cover the 30 cylinders at the end of the drive or 1010-1040 cylinder range (well, a little less than this), whichever comes first. This occurs at around the 8GB point if the drive is larger than 8GB ... believe me, if you put this area at the end of a 20 gig drive, the moment the BIOS hibernation kicks in, weird things happen to data in the partition spanning this range as a friend of mine found out!
So whilst his free space is significantly larger than it needs to be, it is covering the right area ...
- Raymond
At 06:24 AM 29/03/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:22:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
first off you have your hibernation free space in the wrong place it should be at the end of the drive and you need approximately 100MB of space. Next you need to fix the mbr of the drive so windows will boot.
john
--- John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:26:11 -0800 > From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install > > The hard drive in my L110 is, I think, dying - makes > loud clicking > noise frequently. So I stopped using the Lib, then > bought a new 30GB > Samsung drive. > > I used Disk Management in Win XP to create two > partitions in the new > drive - the first (call it c:) from 0GB to 7.5GB, > primary and active, > the second (call it d:) from 9GB to 30GB, primary > and not active. I > left an unpartitioned area from 7.5GB to 9GB for the > hibernation file > (more than needed, I think). > > I then used Norton Ghost to back up the primary and > active partition of > the old drive (c:, where the OS lives and where it > boots from) to the > drive of my desktop. Then I used Norton Ghost to > restore that backup > to the primary and active partition (c:) of the new > drive. > > I installed the new drive in my Lib and booted up. > Result? "Disk > error press any key to restart". > > What step have I overlooked? I hope to avoid having > to install Win XP > and all my apps from scratch, because that is such a > tedious process. > I had the Lib set up exactly as I wanted it. > > By the way, I used the backup-then-restore process > rather than cloning, > because I couldn't get my desktop to see both the > old and new drives at > once, even when I had them both plugged in - they > were on the same IDE > cable using 40-to-44 pin adapters. > > > >
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