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Can no longer hibernate in Windows 7
Good Afternoon,
Having spent ages 'googling', and trying different suggestions I thought it was high time I posted a query, in the hope that someone can offer some guidance before I go completely insane!
Basically my laptop will no longer switch to hibernate. In the past I would simply go to the Start Menu, select Hibernate and the laptop would go through the process, once all lights were off, and effectively 'shut down', I'd pop it away, until the next time I require it, when I would be where I left off.
For some reason though, hibernation has stopped working. The option is still there, and when I choose it the laptop will enter sleep mode (black screen), and sit there until I press a key, or touch the mouse-pad, when the laptop screen comes on and I will be at the log-on prompt. This happens either on battery or mains.
I have checked powercfg -energy and whilst after reading the energy-report.html file it shows some errors, none seem apparent to the hibernation. Of course I am happy to post the contents here if required for diagnosis.
I have 4Gb of RAM and my hiberfil.sys is just over 2.8Gb.
I have run SFC and no errors were returned. I have also done a full defrag of the C Drive and checked that the C Drive (with the OS) is the 'booted' active partition (which I know if would have been anyway!).
The Advanced Power Settings are:-
Sleep - Sleep After - On Battery - 10mins
Sleep - Sleep After - Plugged In - Never
Sleep - Allow Hybrid Sleep - On Battery - Off
Sleep - Allow Hybrid Sleep - Plugged In - Off
Sleep - Hibernate After - On Battery - 600mins
Sleep - Hibernate After - Plugged In - 600mins
Sleep - Allow Wake Timers - On Battery - Enable
Sleep - Allow Wake Timers - Plugged In - Enable
A Windows re-install is not an option as firstly I do not possess a Win 7 installation disk, and secondly I do not want to 'return to factory settings' and start all over again. I cannot 'System Restore' as I am unsure on what date it stopped working. There must be something somewhere which is stopping the blasted thing going into hibernation mode!
Can anyone offer any suggestions please?
Many thanks in advance.
Paul