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Hiberfil.sys problem and memory map prevents booting up
Hi, am getting a bit desperate. I have a Win 7 64 bit desktop machine that to the best of my knowledge does NOT have hibernation enabled. When I finish on something I usually put it to sleep unless there's a software update requiring a reboot.
So today after coming back to it I tried to start it from sleep and the fan kicked in but nothing on screen (occasionally happens and I normally just do a forced restart by holding power down for four seconds. But on rebooting I got this message:
Your system's firmware did not preserve the system memory map across the hibernate transition. If you proceed with resume, your system could behave in an unexpected manor after resume completes. It is recommended that you save all your data and reboot the system after resume finishes. Kindly check for a firmware update with your system vendor as it may fix this problem.
( Use the arrow keys to highlight your choice.)
Continue with system resume
Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu.
And whichever I chose got me next to this message:
Your computer can't come out of hibernation.
Status: 0xc0000411
Info:A fatal error occurred processing the restoration data.
File: \hiberfil.sys
Any information that was not saved before the computer went into hibernation will be lost."
Now if I try to boot up, I get to where the Windows symbol starts then there is a brief blue screen too quick to see what it says, then a restart. Locked into that cycle. I can't boot into safe mode (same thing happens), I've tried last known good state, same thing. Ditto start up repair, that couldn't repair it.
A few places I saw Googling suggested typing powercfg -h off from an elevated command prompt to turn off hibernation (though I didn't think it was on). I don't know if the command prompt you get from the windows recovery console is "elevated" but when I tried typing powercfg -h off into it, I got that this is not recognised as an internal or external command...
I also followed suggestions to do sfc /scannow from the recovery console but after a few seconds it stops and says, "there is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart Windows and run sfc again" Except of course I can't actually start Windows so can't reboot.
In desperation I tried booting up into WinPE via CD ROM and restoring my C drive clone via Macrium but STILL I can't get beyond the start of the Windows emblem. What could be going on?
The other day I got an explamation mark against the Marvell SATA port of my primary C drive SSD making wonder if something needed updating but the PC has booted up a few times since then. And if I need to update the BIOS, please can someone show me a handholding guide to how to do it if the PC won't start up? No use telling me to do it via Safe Mode or opening Control Panel etc if I can't access them.
Or had I better reinstall Win 7 from fresh, update the driver and then restore the disk image?
Urgent help most appreciated - I have struggled to find much on Google of either of the above black screeen errors.