rebooting instead of resuming after hibernation

maruli · 07-13-2009, 01:48 PM

Hibernation worked perfectly well on my system until a few weeks ago, when I bought a bigger hard disk and cloned all the partitions. Then I installed and updated a few programs, and did some more things to reorganize, optimize and speed up Win2k. Unfortunately I do not remember all that I did.

Now apparently hibernation still works and shuts the computer down. On the windows drive, after every attempt there is a recent hiberfil.sys of the same size as the memory, and on C:, there is hiberfil.sys with linkmulti to the correct partition, also recent.
But the computer never wakes up and resumes, it always boots as if there was no hibernation.

What could be the reason?

thanks
Maruli

~~zerofire~~ · 08-01-2009, 07:17 AM

Did you disable and then re-enable hibernation after switching the hard drive? The file that is present is most likely only workable with the old drive and a new one should be made for each boot partition that you want to use hibernation on.

maruli · 08-02-2009, 05:23 PM

I did more than dis- and reenable hibernation, I even de- and reenabled the whole APM.

But after a lot more googling, I strongly suspect the problem being the 137GB limit of the new 160GB HD. I had ajusted the Enablebiglba in the registry before cloning, but first I did not suspect any effect upon hibernation.

Therefore I assume, that only a special tool, that would manage an own hibernation, preferably with the file on a partition below the 137GB limit and its own link from the MBR could solve the problem.

I read the description of dozens of freeware and shareware shutting-down-tools, but I could not find any for my purpose.

There should be enough other people with the same trouble with a big HD and Win2K, so maybe someone knows such a tool?

~~zerofire~~ · 08-02-2009, 11:58 PM

If the you expanded the uncloned drive to the full 160GB then you may have the hibernation file past the 137 mark. The only way to solve that is to update to XP SP2 or greater. The problem with many people having this issue is that most updated to XP before drives past 120GB where ever created. That causes many to not experience the problem.

07-13-2009, 01:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
maruli Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: windows 2000 SP4	rebooting instead of resuming after hibernation Hibernation worked perfectly well on my system until a few weeks ago, when I bought a bigger hard disk and cloned all the partitions. Then I installed and updated a few programs, and did some more things to reorganize, optimize and speed up Win2k. Unfortunately I do not remember all that I did. Now apparently hibernation still works and shuts the computer down. On the windows drive, after every attempt there is a recent hiberfil.sys of the same size as the memory, and on C:, there is hiberfil.sys with linkmulti to the correct partition, also recent. But the computer never wakes up and resumes, it always boots as if there was no hibernation. What could be the reason? thanks Maruli

08-01-2009, 07:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
~~zerofire~~ Troubled Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: United States Posts: 637 OS: Windows 95/98se/2000 Pro/XP Home, Pro, or MCE/2003 and 2008 Server Enterprise/7, Debian, Ubuntu My System	Re: rebooting instead of resuming after hibernation Did you disable and then re-enable hibernation after switching the hard drive? The file that is present is most likely only workable with the old drive and a new one should be made for each boot partition that you want to use hibernation on.

08-02-2009, 05:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
maruli Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: windows 2000 SP4	Re: rebooting instead of resuming after hibernation I did more than dis- and reenable hibernation, I even de- and reenabled the whole APM. But after a lot more googling, I strongly suspect the problem being the 137GB limit of the new 160GB HD. I had ajusted the Enablebiglba in the registry before cloning, but first I did not suspect any effect upon hibernation. Therefore I assume, that only a special tool, that would manage an own hibernation, preferably with the file on a partition below the 137GB limit and its own link from the MBR could solve the problem. I read the description of dozens of freeware and shareware shutting-down-tools, but I could not find any for my purpose. There should be enough other people with the same trouble with a big HD and Win2K, so maybe someone knows such a tool?

08-02-2009, 11:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~zerofire~~ Troubled Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: United States Posts: 637 OS: Windows 95/98se/2000 Pro/XP Home, Pro, or MCE/2003 and 2008 Server Enterprise/7, Debian, Ubuntu My System	Re: rebooting instead of resuming after hibernation If the you expanded the uncloned drive to the full 160GB then you may have the hibernation file past the 137 mark. The only way to solve that is to update to XP SP2 or greater. The problem with many people having this issue is that most updated to XP before drives past 120GB where ever created. That causes many to not experience the problem.