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When moving the laptop should I use sleep or hibernate (or neither)
I just finished dealing with my second hard drive crash in 6 months. One of the things I have been told has been to pay attention to what setting my laptop (Dell Latitude d630, Windows 7 Pro N) is on when I'm moving my laptop between classes, from home to work, etc. I close my laptop without shutting down to open it at a different location many times throughout the day, and I was told that perhaps one of the reasons for my laptop crashing this latest time was because my laptop's hard drive was still on during sleep mode, allowing for damage to the moving parts while it was being transported.
Right now, my power settings are set to whatever the default is. I've seen some of the other how-to's around here, but I can't seem to find what the recommended settings when I want to close the laptop and move it somewhere. Any thoughts?