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| Thread ID: 51795 | 2004-11-30 01:12:00 | PC resets when resuming from hibernate | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 298073 | 2004-11-30 01:12:00 | Hi, Hibernate has served me well for every Windows install I have had. But this problem started when (after hibernating) I removed my hard drive to take to a friends house because I needed to burn some CDs and my CD-RW was broken (and I was out of stock of new ones :(). Anyway, it was a flop as I STUPIDLY forgot that Windows 98 couldn't read NTFS. But when I took my hard drive back and connected it, it gets to the end of the bar (resuming), and click - resets cold. It does this every time I hibernate now. But why? My friend's PC can't have altered the hard drive - Windows couldn't even see it. I can only start up normally now, and hibernate is useful to me, especially for things I don't want to close, but need to turn off my PC. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 298074 | 2004-11-30 01:18:00 | I have seen your thread about Linux. Solution: Trash Windows and use Linux only. All I can suggest is trying system restore, or to reinstall windows. Your friends comp might still have written to the HDD to try and read it. I know it sounds silly, but its true. Also... How big is the HDD? If it is bigger than 137GB your friends computer might have stuffed it up due to the 24bit LBA problem |
fus1_n (3818) | ||
| 298075 | 2004-11-30 02:25:00 | Fus1-, Is probably wright there is a serious possibility something was written to the boot sector, do you have an mbr copy or an image to extract one from. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 298076 | 2004-11-30 02:51:00 | As far as I can see, it can't be an MBR problem - the machine is booting. Try repeatedly hitting F8 as the bar turns up and starts loading, and then select 'delete hibernation data and boot normally' (something like this, it's been a while since I last tried to do this). Also a note for the future - never mix HDD swapping and hibernation. I did this a while back, and it wiped the filesystem address tables on the HDD - I had to format it (luckily this was a non-os slave). Good luck, Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
| 298077 | 2004-11-30 02:54:00 | Sorry, didn't read the whole post. Try booting up normally, disabling hibernation, then rebooting into safe mode. While in safe mode, delete 'hiberfil.sys' from your HDD. Then reboot again back into normal mode. Enable hibernation again, and reboot for the final time. Then try to hibernate it - I think it will work after this. Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
| 298078 | 2004-11-30 02:54:00 | This is my feeling, too. If you are removing a drive, it's certainly a good idea to make sure that the OS has been shut down. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 298079 | 2004-11-30 03:46:00 | > As far as I can see, it can't be an MBR problem - the machine is booting. Try repeatedly hitting F8 as the bar turns up and starts loading, and then select 'delete hibernation data and boot normally' (something like this, it's been a while since I last tried to do this). Also a note for the future - never mix HDD swapping and hibernation. I did this a while back, and it wiped the filesystem address tables on the HDD - I had to format it (luckily this was a non-os slave). That's right, it does boot. Also, the suggestion of yours is the only way I can get into the OS. Problem is, the problem just reoccurs. > Try booting up normally, disabling hibernation, then rebooting into safe mode. While in safe mode, delete 'hiberfil.sys' from your HDD. Then reboot again back into normal mode. Enable hibernation again, and reboot for the final time. Then try to hibernate it - I think it will work after this. Trying now, thanks > Use linux only Linux is good on a server, but I'm not shifting from Windows for workstations. George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 298080 | 2004-11-30 03:47:00 | > This is my feeling, too. If you are removing a drive, it's certainly a good idea to make sure that the OS has been shut down. I know this from a horrible, horrible, experience with Growly where I lost 9GB of data by not shutting down, but hibernating. I just forgot this time :(. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 298081 | 2004-11-30 04:07:00 | >I lost 9GB of data by not shutting down, but hibernating How much Ram do you have in that thing, I thought when you hibernate it writes only what is in the Ram to disk |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 298082 | 2004-11-30 04:30:00 | > I thought when you hibernate it writes only what is in the Ram > to disk It does. The 9GB was other stuff he had on the drive. Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
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