best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional

[p***@pir.net]

You're thinking of Suspend to Disk. S2D uses a special partition in order
to function. Hibernate uses a file on the Windows %system% partition, and
needs nothing outside of the windows partition to function.

As with most things, it's more complicated than that.

Most people do not use the terms this specificly and expecting people
to only call windows suspending to a file in a windows partition
"hibernation" is doomed to failure - the term is already widely used
differently for any type of suspend or suspend to disk.

For one thing windows suspending to disk isn't always %system%, some
machines it can be in the first FAT partition on disk on others it can
be a special partition (on my old vaio windows suspending to disk was
a partition).

The BIOS suspending to disk (which can be used by FreeBSD or older
versions of windows) can be to a special partition or to a file on the
first FAT partition on some laptops...

Linux will apparently suspend to disk without BIOS support (a friend
dual booted his laptop between windows and linux and with that support
could go back and forth between the two without fully restarting
either).

It all depends on the version and type of OS, the BIOS type and model
of laptop.

P.

[p***@pir.net]

Yes, but the original poster was asking specificly about WinXP. In WinXP,
Start -> Shutdown -> Hibernate is very specific. It requires Hibernation
being enabled in Windows, and that you have a continuous block of HDD
space slightly larger than physical RAM available on the %system%
partition, which it then uses to create a file for Hibernation once
enabled.

but your comment about bios suspend to disk was not correct and many
people still call what you (and XP) are referring to as hibernation as
suspend to disk.

P.