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re: phdisk and partitioning new harddrive
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(946 messages posted)
Well, as the saying doesn't go, "You learn something old every day."
I never heard of PHDISK so I looked it up and it's been around since Win95. You
guessed more than half of it, Gewg when you said, "proprietary utility in BIOS".
The rest is that "PH" is for Phoenix.
The references say it was to create and maintain a "hibernation partition" to store
volatile data in the case of a crash caused by the battery running out of power.
PHDISK [options]
/CREATE (/FILE or /PARTITION) creates the hibernation file or partition
/DELETE (/FILE or /PARTITION) deletes the hibernation file or partition
/INFO displays information on the hibernation file or partition
/REFORMAT PARTITION reformats the existing hibernation file or partition
"...APM Suspend-To-Disk features on laptops with Phoenix NoteBIOS. ...booting off
of a DOS floppy and using a buggy utility called PHDISK.EXE provided either straight
from Phoenix Technologies or the hardware manufacturer/distributor."
Going straight to Phoenix would seem to be the remedy but this is what they say:
"Because there are several versions of this product and many include customizations
by system manufacturers, Phoenix does not offer replacement copies of PHDISK.EXE
to end-users. Contact your computer's manufacturer to get a replacement copy of the
PHDISK.EXE program and the proper installation instructions for your system."
So I guess the next step is for Mark to use a search engine and find the manufacturer's
site.
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