User's Manual Chapter 8

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Suspend-to-Disk Partition Program
Your notebook has a preinstalled suspend-to-disk partition to support the
amount of memory that was factory installed in your notebook. If you expand
the memory beyond the capacity of the original suspend-to-disk partition, you
will need to create a larger partition on your hard disk drive.
NOTE: Changing the suspend-to-disk partition involves reorganizing
your complete hard disk drive. This causes all data on the disk to be
deleted. Make sure to have a full backup of all data on the disk. Also
verify to have an original copy of all the software installed on your
computer. We recommend that you refer to a certified technician
familiar with this notebook if you are not familiar with this procedure.
To create a Suspend-to-Disk partition:
1. Turn on your system and wait for the prompt to appear.
2. Insert the support floppy disk in the floppy disk drive.
3. At the prompt, type the following command:
A:\Ovmakfil –p [Partition size in MB]
(Where A represents the floppy disk drive; and the partition size is at least
the amount of memory installed in the notebook, plus 5 MB for overhead
memory. E.g. ‘A:\Ovmakfil –p133’ will create a suspend-to-disk partition
able to support a maximum of 128 MB of memory.)
NOTE: If you decide to change the size of the existing suspend-to-disk
partition, we recommend you change it to a size that is able to support
the maximum amount of memory in the notebook. If the size of the
suspend-to-disk partition is smaller than the amount of memory installed
in the notebook, the system might become unstable and/or you might
loose unsaved data whenever the notebook suspends to disk.
Press the Enter key.
4. The program will then create the suspend-to-disk partition. Next you need
to partition the rest of the notebook’s hard disk drive, and format the
active partition.
CD-ROM Drivers
In order to access the CD-ROM drive after your hard disk has been
reformatted, and to install the operating system again from the Windows CD,
you need to first install the proper CD-ROM drivers.