Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:02:21 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
Well John, I guess you have a different BIOS than I do. Just do a simple test. If you have a disk drive larger that 8 gigs scan you sectors to find where the L100C is putting the hibernation file. The OS doesn't have anything to do with where the L100C BIOS is putting the copy of memory. It doesn't mater if youhave Win98, Win95, Win2K, XP, Linux installesd the Libby BIOS puts its hibernation file in the same palce on the hard drive and it DOES NOT recognize any drive larger than 8 gb.
Now where did I say the "BIOS somehow magically works when there isn't any battery power to even spin the hd!!" ?
You are the one who is saying silly things.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
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" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard
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> 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 > >
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