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save to disk
L
OW
B
ATTERY
& S
AVE
When the Low battery warning starts, you
have about 10% of battery power left.
Then, the computer goes into
Save to Disk
or
Suspend
mode (if you havent given
the system more power).
The
Battery Low
line in Power Savings (see
Chapter
4: Firmware
) has two options:
Save to Disk
System status information
is recorded to a special file
or partition on the HDD and
then the system turns OFF.
This requires the
PHDisk
utility
(see the sidebar).
Suspend
Information is saved to the
RAM and the system goes
into low power mode.
If either of these options starts, the bat-
tery is fully depleted, though it main-
tains a small, safety, reserve.
If the battery depletes its safety reserve,
the system cant be turned on and any-
thing not saved to disk is lost. In this case,
replace or enhance the power supply.
M
Warning
If you havent set up
the system for
Save to
Disk
, or if the space re-
served for the
Save to
Disk
partition
isnt
large enough, the sys-
tem will default to the
Save to Disk file
(if
present and large
enough) or to
Suspend
mode. If the system
uses
Suspend
mode,
your unsaved data will
be lost when power is
turned off.
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Save to Disk Setup (cont.)
T
HE
P
ARTITION
M
ETHOD
The
Save to Disk
partition must be setup on an
unpartitioned
,
unformatted
hard disk. If your hard
disk already has information you want to keep,
make sure it is backed-up because this operation
will reconfigure your HDD. If you are setting up a
new (unformatted) hard disk, follow these steps:
1.
Boot up the computer from a bootable disk.
2.
Insert the
PhDisk Utility
floppy.
3.
Run PHDISK.EXE
to find out how much space you need, type
a:>
PHDISK
[
Enter
]
for a list of command switches, press
Enter
again.
to have PHDisk automatically create a
partition to meet your
current
needs, type
a:>
PHDISK
~
/CREATE
~
/
PARTITION
[
Enter
]
or a:>
PHDISK
~
/C
~
/P
[
Enter
]
to make a partition the size you prefer,type
a:>
PHDISK
~
/CREATE
~
[
size
]
~
/
PARTITION
[
Enter
]
or a:>
PHDISK
~
/C
~
[
size
]
~
/P
[
Enter
]
e.g. for a 19MB partition, type
a:>
PHDISK
~
/C
~
19456
~
/P
[
Enter
]
Note
: Since this method requires you to configure
your HDD, you should make your
Save to Disk
par
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