Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:12:49 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
Dear Tony Yes it does work that way IF you use EZ whatever you use. Now why would you want to set up your computer like that when you don't have to? It just makes it way harder to setup for you poor silly things that believe the bios somehow magically works when there isn't any battery power to even spin the hd!! Like I mentioned in the last email, if the bios can write to the hd the operating system is in control anyway and it writes to the END of the drive not the middle. fi john --- Tony Oresteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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" <libretto@basiclink.com> > 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. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Make Yahoo! your home page > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
