[ltp] T21 hibernation

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

D. Sen wrote:

>> I'd like to put a single hibernation file on the system that W$k uses 
>> along with the BIOS hibernate, and I need the information so I can 
>> figure out:
>> Is it possible?
>
>
> I am not sure about Windows 2000/XP. The native file system there is 
> NTFS. IBM's standalone hibernation utitity specifically says that it 
> does not support NTFS. 

Not so important to this, but the Recovery CD IBM supplied formats C:\ 
to FAT32 (type b) on my system.

>> What do I need to do to trick W$k into letting it be the way I set it 
>> up?
>
> If Windows 2000 uses a seperate mechanism than the BIOS to hibernate 
> the machine then this would be difficult. Linux depends on the BIOS 
> for hibernation. I dont know the answer to your question. My T30 came 
> with XP. But I got rid of that and just made a fat32 partition *just* 
> for hibernation. 

Yes, W$k does indeed appear to use it's own mechanism, and I'm not going 
to pursue tricking it into using the same hibernation file as the BIOS uses.

Thanks for the information.

Bret




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