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Disk mode in your operating system when the battery power is almost de-
pleted. But in Windows 98 this feature is available only after you set Suspend
mode to “Save To Disk” in BIOS Setup Utility. The feature prevents losing any
data due to loss of power. For more information on this, refer to your operating
system’s manual.
Note: Some operating systems, such as Windows NT4.0, don’t support Sus-
pend to Disk mode. Therefore, even you set “Suspend mode” to Save to Disk in
BIOS Setup, it always enters (Power on) Suspend mode instead.
In order to use Suspend to Disk, you must creat a Suspend-to-disk partition or
file on your Hard Disk Drive; otherwise, although your computer is set to enter
the Suspend to Disk mode automatically, it will enter the POS mode instead.
The recommended size of the Suspend-to-disk partition or file should be calcu-
lated based on the following formula:
Save-to-Disk partition or file size = DRAM + Video RAM + 2MB
For example, if the installed DRAM is 64MB and the video RAM is 16 MB, the
recommended Save-to-Disk partition or file size is 82MB. The instructions are
as follows:
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To create a Save-to-Disk partition:
1) Use your operating system's FDISK program to delete all hard disk
partitions if any already exists on the target drive. (But if your HDD has free
available partition bigger than the size of DRAM+Video RAM+2MB, you don’t
need to delete the existing partitions.)
2) Boot the system and run the Save to Disk Utility to create the Sus-
pend-to-Disk partition on the hard disk. Follow the steps below:
- Boot the computer.
- Insert the floppy disk containing the Save to Disk utility.
- Type PHDISK41 at the command prompt, and press Enter.
- Type 1 to create the partition, then press Enter.
