I was trying to follow the Intel guide for setting up iRST (Intel Rapid Start Technology) on my new laptop. The Intel manual says you need to create a *Volume that is as big or bigger than your available memory, set it to a specific id (id=84), then go into the iRST tool and adjust some settings.

Looking at the disk manager on the laptop, I see there is already a Partition labeled as "Hibernation Partition" which is a little bigger than the memory in my system. So it looks like iRST was already set up...BUT, it's a Partition, not a Volume.

Here's what the manual says to do: (from: http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/rapid_start_technology_user_guide.pdf)

diskpart
list disk 
select disk x (where x is the disk to use, there's only one disk in this laptop)
create partition primary size=X000 (where X000 is the size to create)
detail disk (which lists details for the disk.  This is where i get hung up)
select volume Z (where Z is the *partition you created previously)
** it says the 'detail disk' command will list the volume #, but it doesn't.
** 'detail disk' only lists two "volumes" for Recovery and OS.
** if i do 'list partition', i see the 8 GB *partition labeled as "Hibernation    Partition")
** so I can't continue with the following steps:
set id=84 override
exit

The reason I went looking for the manual is because when iRST is enabled in the BIOS, the system won't resume from sleep. When it's disabled, it works fine, but the system goes into (legacy?) Hibernation mode and takes a while to come out of Hibernation. the iRST is supposed to resume from deep sleep very quickly.

So, what's the difference between a Volume and a Partition?

Should I delete the Hibernation Partition and create a Hibernation Volume?

Anyone have any ideas?

(if it matters, this is on a Dell XPS 13 with BIOS A08)

Thanks!

J