Windows 7: Hibernation Issues with Ubuntu Dual Boot

Hello All!

I have been having problems hibernating my windows 7 partition recently. It happened approximately right after I set up the dual boot.



I have found other topics where it says to make sure that the windows 7 partition is marked as the active partition. I have since done so and it has not changed anything. I did it with Partition Magic on Windows. I did find it suspicious though that my Dell Recovery partition is labeled as boot while the Windows one is marked as Active and System.

However when I looked at it using disk utility in Ubuntu the windows 7 partition is marked as Bootable while the recovery partition is not.

Hibernation works on Ubuntu with a couple error messages while shutting down and some weird screen issues while booting up. But it ends up working decently.

I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me with this. Thanks!

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Sorry can't help, anyway I think Hibernation is a waste of time, and causes more trouble than its worth.

Hi

What problems are you facing in hibernating. Could you elaborate on that ?

whenever I try and hibernate the screen just turns black and the computer goes to sleep.

Partition Magic is not compatible with Windows 7.

Having GRUB on the same HD with Windows 7 can and often will corrupt it. The only way to avoid this is to install OS's on separate HD's booted via BIOS so that GRUB isn't needed.

Please post back a screenshot of your full Windows 7 Disk Management drive map and listings, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu.

Will sleep work in Windows 7? Start here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Hello. Sorry for the confusion, I meant I was using Partition Wizard not Partition Magic. I've had grub and windows 7 on the same drive on my last computer and it did not cause any issues, so Im curious as to why its doing it here



Also Sleep does work in Windows 7

Your System MBR is written to the Recovery drive which is not correct. It likely is messing up your Hibernation if GRUB is not.

Since Windows 7 is marked Active, you should be able to recover the System MBR into the Windows 7 partition by simply booting the Windows 7 DVD Repair console or Repair CD to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots: Startup Repair

do you know if that will mess with grub?

also why do you have to do it with 3 separate reboots?

Because it sometimes takes 3 separate repairs to write the MBR to Active partition.

I do not know if it will mess with GRUB. But I do know GRUB messes with Windows 7.

Your best install with Ubuntu/Linux is to a separate HD booted via BIOS so the GRUB is not necessary.