| Subject: Re: How to create (non-destructively) a suspend-to-disk partition? |
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Ashot Bord
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Date Posted: 18:01:15 11/08/00 Wed
In reply to:
Kawah
's message, "How to create (non-destructively) a suspend-to-disk partition?" on 09:52:33 11/08/00 Wed
Hi Kawah,
I'm not sure how PartitionMagic works so may be it interferes with 0vmakfil utility, but from my experience of making suspend-to-disk partition, when you boot from 'power utility disk' you run fdisk and check what partitions you currently have, suspend partition is NON-DOS partiton. You delete this partition (again, I'm not sure if it's safe with Partitiion Magic results) and then upon exit from fdisk you run 0vmakfil -p260, and it creates new suspend-to-disk NON-DOS partition of 266M (that's how fdisk reports it)
Since you say that you've deleted your old suspend-to-disk partition, I'm not sure what really 'went wrong'. I'd try to use fdisk and see what's really is on the disk. In order to create this partition I think you should have contigious 260M domain on your disk, so I don't know whether Partition Magic was able to move your old partition this way.
Otherwise try to re-do all the steps. Also you may ask yourself if you really need this partition because it turns out suspend-to-disk works much slower proprtionally to amount of RAM you install up to 64M. I used it sometimes while I had 64M but now with +128M I found it to be unefficient (though I still have this 260M partition set). Some users report that without this partition you only get nag message about the missing partition, but you may try to turn it off if you switch to Suspend-to-RAM mode (but I cannot confirm this ).
Hope it helps,
AB
P.S. for some reason TransmondeSOS.net _is_ busy, I suspect this is NameZero's problem (domain name host) (??handling Florida tonight :). But you should be able to get to the site through http://computriots.tripod.com ( this is actually the page host)
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded my Vibrant LS from 128 to 256 Meg.
> Memory was recognised without incident. But upon boot
> up, a message (followed by a beep) said the
> suspend-to-disk partition is too small and to run the
> V0MAKFIL program.
>
> I use Partition Magic 4.0, move my C up by 140 and ran
> (after rebooting with the provided power util floppy)
> "V0MAKFIL -P260". It complained about another
> partition present. I went back to PM and delete the
> original 140 Meg partition, now my disk looks like
> this:
>
> * free space - 287 M
> * C: 5900M (approx.)
>
> I then reboot with the power utility disk and ran
> "V0MAKFIL -P260". It came back and simply said
> "SOMETHINE WENT WRONG" and did not do anything further.
>
> I did consult the included docs and the only thing
> I can find about re-creating a suspend-to-disk
> partition
> is in the little sheet describing how tore-install
> Win98.
> Naturally I do not want to do that (I just added more
> RAM).
>
> I tried www.transmondesos.net and the site seemed to be
> down or busy. I will try that tonight. In the meantime,
> I was hoping there is a real simple answer to my
> problem.
> I am not very PC savvy, so I beg your parden if this is
> a too simple problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kawah
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