Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:59:05 +0200
From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 20GB experience + a few questions
Hi,
I finally purchased the new IBM 20GB drive from Weesco (thanks to David).
There are quite a few options for nonUS residents. Actually, few companies
ship and bill outside US. Those who accept ask you to pay through money
order. It is not easy to send MO as subsequently if something go wrong you
lose your money. Bob the owner of Weesco is a nice guy and has a good
feedback in E-Bay. The prices are reasonable and shipping charges are
$25.00. Finally he kindly noted "Replacement Hard Drive" on the top of the
box and so far I have not received VAT customs form.
I found only one company (do not actually remember the name) which ships
overseas and accept credit cards but they were charging $85 for shipping.
Note for French buyers: at least IBM France offers only 3 months warranty
for parts (IMO Toshiba do the same) for this cutting edge technology! Thus,
3 years of US warranty well worth the hassle of buying in US. I am actually
at my third drive replacement in two-year Libretto experience. Toshiba's 6GB
died for the second time while I was waiting for 20GB. I will have to
contact that f#@$ng Toshiba support again!
Hope this helps future buyers.
Now the questions.
1 Aware of potential hibernation zone problem I FDISKed first. Obviously in
DOS I was limited to 8GB. I carefully noted the last sector which was Cyl
1016; Head 254; Sector 63. My partition plan was the following:
1st primary Win2K 3GB
2nd primary Win98 1,5GB
3st primary DOS 0,5 GB
Extended
3GB
200MB for temporary Windows files, Internet cashe, Recent, Cookies
200MB pagefile
80MB beginning Cyl 1017 Head 1 sect 1
12GB CD images
I remember that when I partitioned hibernation zone on 6GB drive whenever
BIOS hibernation occurred partition table was erased and the hibernation
zone appeared again as unallocated space. Thus this was my test. And it did
not work! After BIOS hibernated my Libretto I was able to access all logical
drives.
How can I find where Libretto hibernates before I loose any data???
2 Another weird problem happened to me which may explain my first problem.
I was urged to get some data from a friend's desktop so I hibernated Win2k,
pulled out the drive and connected through USB adapter. Though DNboy is
supposed to be limited to 13GB drives I was able to access the whole drive
and copy my files. I even tested if I was able to access those files on my
drive.
It was a bad surprise when I discovered my drive in Libretto just after it
went from hibernation. The files were not there! Actually I suppose that
Win2k keeps all filetables in memory and on some occasions may restore them
to drive after standby/hibernation. Can anybody confirm this?
3 I am going to use System Commander to switch from Win2k to Win98. Are
there any hidden problem to ghost in this particular case?
4 What is the better choice Ghost or Drive Image? I have one point for Drive
Image: it can verify integrity of allocation tables of all drives before
dumping partition.
Did anyone managed to save partition directly to NTFS disk? DI docs say it
is possible as long as DOS gives a letter to the disk. I tested with demo of
NTFSDOS but failed. Computer is rebooted whenever I try to start DI/Ghost.
When NTFSDOS is loaded with hymem.sys it says stack overflow. Systernals
site says to ask technical assistance but it is limited to NTFSDOSPRO users.
These are all my questions. Thank you for any help.
If you remember my post about CD emulators - Win2k incompatibilities. I
finally got solution it is Paragon CD emulator.
Quick reminder:
Virtual Drive - only one drive can be created; need to reboot Win2k when you
plug PCMCIA CD-ROM
VirtuoCD - no compression, the author seems to forget about his commitment
to develop this software
Virtual CD v3 - prevents standby/hibernation
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