Please do let us know if you figure it out. Wish I could get my hands on it.
'Course, then I wouldn't get the garden finished this week.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L." wrote in message
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So I guess I may have screwed it up when I reinstalled win 98se which
included reformatting the HD. Oh well.
It didn't ask for a partition other than 'normal' setup. And I didn't
have any original disks.

I may call a couple of shops around the area and see what they'd charge to
look at it.
I don't trust myself pulling it and putting in one of my systems.

At least it didn't cost the Historical Society anything but it's a shame
to dump it if it can be fixed.
I want to thank you very much for all your help and suggestions.

If it gets working I'll try and let you know.

Thanks again,
L.
O'Fallon, XX H.S.


"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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Well here's where we a Everything I can find on this message, which is
common to many laptops that use the same Hibernation system... All roads
lead to those same instructions you already tried. The file that the
message suggests you run, if you could read the whole message, is "HDPREP
(or HDPREPEZ), or 'AMI Save to File Utility'". That would prepare the
hard drive by creating a special partition to hold Hibernation data. But
you have to prep the HD *before* you turn on the feature, and you have to
turn off the feature to make it let you boot if the HD isn't prepped
properly.

In short, I'm not sure I can take you any farther. If there is no
possible power management option that fits the bill, I have to wonder if
someone tried to update the BIOS and screwed up. I dunno, nothing quite
makes sense. All I know is that it's the BIOS that's holding you up, and
it's holding you up because it can't find the hibernation partition.

Hmmm... I suppose you could try taking out the HD, putting it into a
desktop, and run the HDPREP program, then put it back in the laptop.
Would be a complicated operation (gotta make sure only the laptop HD gets
"prepped", which might mean having to disable the rest of the HDs in the
machine and use a bootable floppy setup disk to run the HDPREP utility.

But it all comes back to BIOS should have that setting, and if it
doesn't, nothing makes sense. Sorry, but I don't think I could come up
with anything else without the machine in front of me. I'd want to take
the disk out and put it into another machine to see what partitions there
are, and I'd want to positively identify the motherboard and determine if
it was possible to find a BIOS version for it that has the proper
settings...

Just doesn't make any sense.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com


"L." wrote in message
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Sorry for the delays, work.

Not sure exactly what make this thing is.No markings on case.
The only info is on a plate on bottom of system and it's stated
"Personal Computer Model No. N340S8".
Another problem is that this was donated and they isn't any disks, etc.
that came with it.

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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What is the make/model of the machine?

--
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MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L." wrote in message
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Followed your instructions but still no go.

I went into BIOS and set floopy to be "1st Boot Device", inserted
floppy and restarted system.
After intitial startup, goes straight to error msg.

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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You run BOOTITNG.EXE on the system you used to download it, and it
make's its own bootable floppy (or CD.) You then put that floppy in
the problem machine and boot to it. Once it finishes loading, the
first dialogue you get will be to install BootIt NG (BING) and that's
where you Cancel the installation.

Sorry for the less than clear instructions.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L.S." wrote in message
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Here's what I've got.
D/L and copied to a floppy BootItng.exe. (had to d/l on another
system)
Made a bootable floppy when I installed Win98se.
Problem is, Iv'e set BIOS to read floppy 1st, Cd 2nd and then HD but
this system isn't following instructions.
When the system starts, I can't hear either disk running and then I
get error msg.

I'm confused, when you say to make a bootable floopy unless you're
taking about something other than the one I create with win98se.
Also, run Bootitng.exe--- how when the system locks up even though
I have the bootable floopy in the drive.


"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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Sorry, that download from BootIt NG is a ZIP file. Unzip that to a
new folder and then run BOOTITNG.EXE file in that folder.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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My suggestion is to get a copy of BootIt NG from www.bootitng.com.
No need to pay, just download the EXE, make a bootable floppy or
CD installer, reboot to the floppy or CD and then CANCEL THE
INSTALLATION! That will drop you into Maintenance Mode where you
can choose Partition Work. See what's listed there in the middle
panel. More than just the one partition where you installed Win98?
If so, please list them for us here, including name, size, type.

What's the make/model of the machine?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com


"L.S." wrote in message
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Followed link.
Problem is there is no such option.
Nothing looks close to an auto Save-to-file option.



"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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See he
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...ad.php?t=33474

Let us know how it goes, OK?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L.S." wrote in message
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Received a donated laptop for our local historical society.
Reformatted HD, everything worked/loaded, but when I restart
system it locks up, no keyboard, nothing with the following
msg.
"Invalid hibernation partition/file run hd-----"
I can get into BIOS, using Del key, but that's it.

I've tried to use the startup floppy that was created during
Win install but no go.
I've put in the win98se cd and still nothing.

Is this a win98se problem or did I do something?