Rescue disk wanted

Hi everyone, i was wondering if anyone out there could help me out. I have an Omnibook 5700 and i installed a new hard disk cause i smashed my old one. The problem is that the new disk doesn't have a hibernation partition and i can't create one without a rescue disk which i don't have right now. Could anyone give me a link to the disk or at least the program to create this partition?

 

You shouldn't need a partition just to hibernate. Just enable hibernation support in Windows Power Management.

 

Yes - Hibernation uses system RAM, not space on the HD.

 

Wow, that sounds like a cool story, you want to elaborate on that? Frustration? Stress? or just an accident?

 

Actually, "Standby" keeps the RAM powered-on. and CPU in very low power. HDD, CD drive, display are powered-off. So that it uses very little power.

"Hibernate" dumps an exact image of the RAM into a huge file(file which was pre-allocated). then turns off the computer. thus uses no power at all. when you turn-on the laptop again it copies the file into the RAM again, thus you're back where u left off.

 

I would like to thank you for your replies, but i still can't find a solution to my problem. Of course i can enable hibernation support in Windows Power Management, but what i want to tell you is that when i boot my PC i get an error message saying that boot sector has changed. I run fdisk and it only shows one primary partition on my disk while my old disk had another one which was a little larger than the size of my RAM. I did a little searching and i found that this partition is a special kind of a non DOS partition which HP uses to store hibernation data and some kind of utilities. That is why i am looking for this ****ed rescue disk i ya know what i mean.

 

You mean HP System Recovery? It should be using FAT32. I would use cfdisk from a linux boot disk to look at it instead of fdisk. CFDISK has the easier ncurses semi-GUI.