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Hi,

I have a not even 1 week old T61p with Vista Ultimate preinstalled. After doing all the Windows and Lenovo updates, I noticed that hibernation didn't work (and still doesn't).

Here's what happens: I click on Start->Hibernate (or other ways to achieve it) and then the screen goes black, hard drive becomes active, then after 2-5 seconds the displays flickers and then comes back to the login screen.

I tried to disable / reenable hibernation with the powercfg -h ON|OFF command and restarting before,during and afterwards, with no effect.

The event viewer shows an error:
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Source: volmgr
Event ID: 45
The system could not sucessfully load the crash dump driver.
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I searched the web the last few days and came across other people that have the same symptoms.

First one:
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1338
Guy who has exactly same symptoms after installing xp on another partition, no resolutions found besides clean install.
They suspected problems with the volume manager (volmgr) or Bitlocker, but couldn't confirm or fix anything.

Second one:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=49155
Same symptoms, dual boot with Linux.
He found that his Vista partition wasn't marked as active, which caused the hibernation problem.


In my case, I don't have another operating system installed, but I used Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 to shrink the preinstalled Vista partition to 60GB and created a new 120GB one at the end. Because I initially tried to use Vista's partitioning tool, I deactivated the system restore points and the paging file in order to free some space in the middle of the drive that prevented Vista from shrinking it beyond their locations. Didn't work of course, even after using various defragmentation tools. Then I used Paragon's tool and it took care of moving the overlapping files.

My Vista partition is marked as active. The second one (containing installed programs) is not active. Vista tells me that only partitions with an operational OS should be marked active.

Bitlocker is installed but I never used it.

I think hibernation didn't even work after doing the updates at first, but I'm not really sure anymore whether I tried it then. Definately after the repartitioning, it didn't work. Standby, shutdown, restart work all as expected.


Thank you,

Jo

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| T61p | WUXGA | T7800 2.6GHz | 2GB | NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB) | 200GB Hitachi 7K200 | 4965AGN | BT | FP | Vista Ultimate |

Vista has a hybrid hibernate/sleep function now, ie. there is no more Hibernate per se.

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/erwyn/ar ... ained.aspx

Hope this helps.

CJ

Not quite true.
If you disable hybrid sleep, standby and hibernate become available again. Somewhere in the comments of your article this link with the explanation was posted:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929658

I enabled, disabled and restarted a couple of times with the powercfg hibernate setting.. but it didn't fix anything. The hiberfil.sys was recreated during that process though.

Just for completeness:

After the custom (nothing ticked) restoration of the system using the recovery partition, hibernate worked fine again. The reasons why hiberrnation didn't work in the first place might be somewhere between the preinstalled applications and/or the repartitioning of the primary partition.

I again installed all Windows updates and manually upgraded the Lenovo drivers and had no problems so far.