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    Hibernating to the wrong partition?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by the_flying_shoe, Jan 22, 2009.

  1. the_flying_shoe

    the_flying_shoe Notebook Evangelist

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    My colleague told me this morning that his laptop hibernated into the wrong partition of his hard drive yesterday. Now he is unable to get back into his main partition. Any advice on how to solve this? I was thinking that booting into the bios and selecting which drive to boot from would be the solution, but he said that his bios doesn't have that option (I'm just thinking he doesn't know how to access it). Any way to go back to the main partition? All his operating system files are located in the main one.
     
    the_flying_shoe, Jan 22, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    When Windows hibernates, it actually writes data found in the RAM to a file called hiberfile.sys (or hiber.sys, I can't refer now, my Windows machine is broken). This is a hidden file that resides in C:\, exactly the same partition that Windows is on.

    So technically, what your friend is saying doesn't make any sense.
     
    Bog, Jan 22, 2009
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  3. the_flying_shoe

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    Haha, alright. He reformatted via disk anyways, all's good again.
     
    the_flying_shoe, Jan 23, 2009
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    yeah never heard of that...makes no sense
     
    mooler, Jan 23, 2009
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