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4-2 Dell Inspiron 3700 System Reference and Troubleshooting Guide

 For any operating system that uses a file system other than FAT16 or FAT32,

including compressed file systems such as DriveSpace, use the following

algorithm to determine the amount of disk space to reserve for an S2D

partition:

Size of system memory + size of video memory + 1 percent of size of

system memory + 2 MB rounded up to the next cylinder

Examples:

32 MB + 4 MB + .36 MB + 2 MB = 38.36 MB (approximately 1.25 percent of

a 3-GB drive)

256 MB + 6 MB + 2.62 MB + 2 MB = 266.62 MB (approximately 4.4 percent

of a 4-GB drive)

2. Format the hard-disk drive and assign logical drive letters to the partitions you

created according to the instructions provided with your operating system.

3. Restart the computer from a bootable diskette such as the

Microsoft Boot Disk

Windows 98 Series

diskette.

4. Create the S2D partition.

For instructions, see “Save-to-Disk Suspend Utility” found later in this chapter.

5. Follow the instructions found later in this chapter to install the appropriate device

drivers.

6. Install your application programs on the hard-disk drive.

If you have trouble with the hard-disk drive, run the IDE Devices device

group tests in the Dell Diagnostics. For instructions, see “Running the Dell

Diagnostics” in Chapter 3.

7. If you ever need to remove the S2D partition to free up storage space on the

hard-disk drive, do so by using the rms2d.exe utility on the

System Software

CD.

See “Removing the Save-to-Disk Suspend Partition” found later in this chapter

for instructions. When more space is available on the drive, you can also recreate

the S2D partition using the mks2d.exe utility. See “Creating the Save-to-Disk

Suspend Partition” found later in this chapter for instructions.

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You must install Windows 98 on the hard-disk drive, as described in the following

steps, before you install any device drivers:

1. Insert the

Microsoft Boot Disk Windows 98 Series

diskette into the diskette

drive.

2. Restart the computer.

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