Compaq 1270 Laptop, Windows ME Questions, need a little info here :)

[Blayze]

I did a format of my Compaq laptop, leaving the C: and D: partitions that compaq makes alone. I then install Windows ME. Would have done 2000, but I only have 32 megs of RAM

Anyway the computer is about 100x faster without all the compaq crap on the system. My only problem is when I boot the computer up if I press the ESC key to get rid of the COMPAQ logo to look at the boot up, I see a red box.

In this box it says something about the file save partition being too small and that the save feature is disabled.

I did not resize the paritions or delete any from the factory install. All I did was format C: and then install a fresh copy of Windows.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? it doesn't lock up the computer, etc... if I dont press the ESC key to look at the boot up I dont even know its happening.

Also would there be any risk in repartitioning the drive into one drive? it is currently in 2 partitions. (C: D

 

[Blayze]

bump

 

[Blayze]

any ideals?

 

[Blayze]

sorry for bumping this so much but I was just wondering can I change the partitions on this laptop?
thinking of trying out Linux on this thing



*edit*
found out that the message has something to do with the Hibernation of the laptop.
I must have deleted the file that it needed to do this.

 

[anime]

if you got the emergency boot disk from windows--you can re-partioned the hard drive with it using fdisk.

 

[bacillus]

<< In this box it says something about the file save partition being too small and that the save feature is disabled. >>


just a guess here but I wonder if the hibernation partition has been deleted &amp; hence inoperative.
The hibernation utility, PHDISK.EXE, is located in C:\HIBERNAT