Windows 7 – Why Hibernate Doesn’t Work Anymore

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I am having a problem with Hibernating my Windows 7 PC. When ever I try to hibernate, the screen goes blank for a while, there's disk activity and then I am presented with the Login Screen.

I've tried enabling/disabling hibernation, not helped.
When I run shutdown /h I get a error: "The system cannot find the file specified.(2)"

I've checked and "hiberfil.sys" does exist.

How can I get hibernation working again?

EDIT: Just ran shutdown /h and monitored it with Process Monitor (something I should have done at the beginning) and the only file it cannot find is "C:\Windows\rescache\rc0008":

08:10:24.6198561 AM shutdown.exe    3684    CreateFile  C:\Windows\rescache\rc0008  NAME NOT FOUND  Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a

I went to "C:\Windows\rescache" and saw:

rc0006 (Folder)

rc0007 (Folder)

ResCache.mni (File)

Now I tried just copying rc0007 and rename it to rc0008 but I get a access denied error (even when running as Administrator). Should I bother going into safe mode and copying and renaming rc0007 to rc0008. Will it help? Does this shed some light on the problem?

Best Answer

Because your system partition is not active anymore.

Click start - right click "Computer" - click "Manage" - go to Storage - Disk Management - Right Click Windows Partition And "Mark Partition As Active".

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