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I recently puchased an upgrade hard drive for my notebook. Do I need to setup a suspend-to-disk partition?

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I recently puchased an upgrade hard drive for my notebook. Do I need to setup a suspend-to-disk partition?

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[-]In order for your notebook being able to Suspend-to-Disk, there should be set up a non-DOS partition on your hard-drive which should be greater or equal to amount of physical memory RAM installed. When you bought your notebook by default your original HDD came with suspend-to-disk partition set accordingly to your memory configuration. If you going to use Suspend-to-Disk with your new hard-drive you need to set up this partition yourself. [!]For instrucions on reformatting your HDD and preparation of your suspend-to-disk partition refer to the ‘Reinstalling your OS’ leaflett that came along with your User’s Guide. [?]I was playing with the drives, repartitioning for linux, and other stuff, at some point the BIOS started giving me an error on bootup that says something like “Please run 0VMAKFIL…” It’s only flashed for a few seconds and the performance of the computer isn’t otherwise affected. [-]That message will appear (breifly) when the power management settings in BIOS are set t

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