Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:37:41 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
John Musielewicz,
The hibernation space is correct as J. Liu has it. The BIOS puts it at the end of the hard drive up to 8 gb. Drives that are larger that 8 GB the Libby BIOS still puts it at the 8 gb boundary.
What I do is first partition the drive in the L100CT. It will see the drives as an 8 gig drive (even though it's a 30). I then put the drive into a desktop computer and make the 100mb hibernation partition and the balance my data partition. Then with EZ BIOS loaded the OS can see the entire drive.
EZ BIOS will NOT fix the BIOS issue of putting the hibernation file at the 8 gig boundary.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
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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