At  06:32 PM 8/5/00, Steve Dirickson wrote:
> > P.S.  My ThinkPad doesn't use a separate disk area outside the drive
> > partitions for hibernation.  It creates a contiguous file on the C:/
> > directory.  And I'm pretty certain that PartitionMagic would
> > show any areas outside the disk partitions in any case.  :)
>
>If you're talking about Win2K's "hibernation", that's not the same
>thing as the portable's BIOS-based "save-to-disk" operation; the
>latter sometimes uses a standard file-system file (like my Dell
>Inspiron--until I reformatted the disk to NTFS) or uses the
>non-partitioned-space method.

Nope.  I'm talking about what I think the Win98 "Stand By" does...  (I'm
not positive that's it since I usually just use the ThinkPad specific
keyboard shortcut "Fn-F12".)  i.e., suspends processing and writes RAM and
such things as register states to a reserved disk area... which on my
ThinkPad is "C:\acr_0v.dat" with attributes "RHS"... on my 64MB machine
it's 66.5MB in size... and then powers down the laptop.  Power on then
loads the image from disk and "wakes up" the OS.  I think of the whole
thing as analogous to older (pre-9x8) HP3000's powerfail recovery mechanism
except that instead of preserving RAM (and processor state) with batteries,
it writes the state to disk.

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