Can't Hybernate My Laptop.
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I lost the ability to hybernate my laptop after i formated the harddisk and partitioned my harddrive and clean installed the windows XP. While rearragning the partition, i saw a utility partition of 5GB at the end of the harddisk. It said it was a partition for Lenovo. I thought maybe it is used for some sort of backup or recovery information. I decided i dont want a recovery thing, coz if my laptop crashes, i will format it, Coz i always backup important data. So I deleted the partition and divided the harddrive into 2 partition, one for the OS and other for data. After doing that, now i dont have the ability to hybernate, after a google search, i figured that it was used by windows to store hybernation information.
-Prakash
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I lost the ability to hybernate my laptop after i formated the harddisk and partitioned my harddrive and clean installed the windows XP. While rearragning the partition, i saw a utility partition of 5GB at the end of the harddisk. It said it was a partition for Lenovo. I thought maybe it is used for some sort of backup or recovery information. I decided i dont want a recovery thing, coz if my laptop crashes, i will format it, Coz i always backup important data. So I deleted the partition and divided the harddrive into 2 partition, one for the OS and other for data. After doing that, now i dont have the ability to hybernate, after a google search, i figured that it was used by windows to store hybernation information.
-Prakash
The hibernation file is stored in the root folder of the C: drive, so the presence or otherwise of a hidden partition is unlikely to have anything to do with it. Do you by any chance have more than 1GB of RAM on your laptop? XP hibernation can sometimes have problems with large RAM sizes - there's a hotfix that deals with it, but I can't remember the KB article number offhand. Good luck!
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I lost the ability to hybernate my laptop after i formated the harddisk and partitioned my harddrive and clean installed the windows XP. While rearragning the partition, i saw a utility partition of 5GB at the end of the harddisk. It said it was a partition for Lenovo. I thought maybe it is used for some sort of backup or recovery information. I decided i dont want a recovery thing, coz if my laptop crashes, i will format it, Coz i always backup important data. So I deleted the partition and divided the harddrive into 2 partition, one for the OS and other for data. After doing that, now i dont have the ability to hybernate, after a google search, i figured that it was used by windows to store hybernation information.
-Prakash
Have you enabled hybernation in Control Panel -> Power Settings -> (tab)Hibernation? I saw a laptop delivered out-of-the-box without hybernation enabled - perhaps that's the default on a clean install. After enabling it, it chugged for a second while it created the file, and then everything worked fine (hybernate was selectable when shutting the system down).
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The hibernation file is stored in the root folder of the C: drive, so the presence or otherwise of a hidden partition is unlikely to have anything to do with it. Do you by any chance have more than 1GB of RAM on your laptop? XP hibernation can sometimes have problems with large RAM sizes - there's a hotfix that deals with it, but I can't remember the KB article number offhand. Good luck!
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
The hibernation file is stored in the root folder of the C: drive, so the presence or otherwise of a hidden partition is unlikely to have anything to do with it.
The website did say that some models of the Lenovo & IBM laptops use the hidden partition for hybernation also. anyways, after posting the original post, I got this link and it worked for me. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/russel_02march25.mspx[^]
-Prakash
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Have you enabled hybernation in Control Panel -> Power Settings -> (tab)Hibernation? I saw a laptop delivered out-of-the-box without hybernation enabled - perhaps that's the default on a clean install. After enabling it, it chugged for a second while it created the file, and then everything worked fine (hybernate was selectable when shutting the system down).
Thanks, I got that info from this site. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/russel_02march25.mspx[^] Yeah, it was off after the clean installation.
-Prakash
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I lost the ability to hybernate my laptop after i formated the harddisk and partitioned my harddrive and clean installed the windows XP. While rearragning the partition, i saw a utility partition of 5GB at the end of the harddisk. It said it was a partition for Lenovo. I thought maybe it is used for some sort of backup or recovery information. I decided i dont want a recovery thing, coz if my laptop crashes, i will format it, Coz i always backup important data. So I deleted the partition and divided the harddrive into 2 partition, one for the OS and other for data. After doing that, now i dont have the ability to hybernate, after a google search, i figured that it was used by windows to store hybernation information.
-Prakash
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I lost the ability to hybernate my laptop after i formated the harddisk and partitioned my harddrive and clean installed the windows XP. While rearragning the partition, i saw a utility partition of 5GB at the end of the harddisk. It said it was a partition for Lenovo. I thought maybe it is used for some sort of backup or recovery information. I decided i dont want a recovery thing, coz if my laptop crashes, i will format it, Coz i always backup important data. So I deleted the partition and divided the harddrive into 2 partition, one for the OS and other for data. After doing that, now i dont have the ability to hybernate, after a google search, i figured that it was used by windows to store hybernation information.
-Prakash
Perhaps if you pop it in the fridge for a few hours it will realize that it's finally Winter, and time to hibernate. The drawback, of course, is that you'll have to wait until Spring to wake it, and it's likely to be power hungry and cross.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
The hibernation file is stored in the root folder of the C: drive, so the presence or otherwise of a hidden partition is unlikely to have anything to do with it.
The website did say that some models of the Lenovo & IBM laptops use the hidden partition for hybernation also. anyways, after posting the original post, I got this link and it worked for me. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/russel_02march25.mspx[^]
-Prakash
I assumed you'd done that already. ;) On my laptop (an Acer Travelmate 8215WLMiwith 2GB RAM) hibernation was enabled "out of the box" but not functional. I had to install an XP hotfix to get it to work.
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