cannot create hibernate file, but hibernate tab is there!

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xav

[officialy I am using a Dutch XP version, and translated
the words - could have made some mistakes]

After reinstalling XP on my girlfriens PC, I have a
problem with hibernate. Before it was working perfectly
and she used it every day.

When I go in the config panel, power management, I see a
hibernate tab. However, when I choose the button to
enable hibernate I get an error "the proces has no access
to the file, because another proces is already using it".

This is absolute strange, since there is
no "hiberfil.sys" on the system.

Besides that I see in the logfiles "ftdisk error ID: 45"
with text "cannot load the crashdump driver". I cannot
understand the ftdisk.sys, which has to do with RAID
disks, stripe sets etc. But this is just an ordinairy
system, with one 40 GB IDE harddisk and one partition.
However disabling this service in the recovery console,
let the system crash during boot.

I couldn't find any information about this ftdisk in
combination with this error-ID; even the MS website is
empty.

I reinstalled XP serveral times, but no luck; problem
stays. Unfortunately I cannot use the recovery CD of my
girlfriend computer, since the motherboard has been
replaced (and it has now a DVD-ROM writer too).

What I tried so far:
- reinstalling it serval times
- from the recovery console "fixmbr" and "fixboot"
- looking to security settings (ACL) on all files in the
root (ntldr etc). I set all ACL full open.. for now ;-)
- trying to find out wich file(s) is written; but even by
logging object access for the system and administrator
account I failed to find the file wich is written
- Updating all drivers to the latest version, certainly
true for the videocard driver.
- update XP to latest servicepack, patches etc.
- On the ASUS website, there is no special driver for
this motherboard in relationship with APCI / power-
management. This is also a fairly new motherboard (bought
feb; '04; it has a BIOS dated Nov '03, which is the
latest).
- Standby mode works fine.
- I tried even to copy an hiberfil.sys from another
computer, but no luck.
 
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xav

I Litterly spend many hours finding the solution.
I wrote my posting after reinstalling the last time XP;
I didn't update it to SP1 yet (again).

When doing so, I notice again that odd error about
ATAPI.SYS; previously I ignored the error and continued
the SP1 installation.

Now I looked closer to ATAPI.SYS; I updated 3 weeks ago
the BIOS of the DVD-ROM writer. Now I noticed that
ATAPI.SYS was not certified by Microsoft anymore.

Killing ATAPI.SYS (with ProceXP from sysinternals),
solved the hibernate problem.

I replaced the ATAPI.SYS with the one on the CD, and now
everything works fine.

Argh... what a connection: FTDISK error, hibernate fails,
ATAPI driver was the problem.






-----Original Message-----
[officialy I am using a Dutch XP version, and translated
the words - could have made some mistakes]

After reinstalling XP on my girlfriens PC, I have a
problem with hibernate. Before it was working perfectly
and she used it every day.

When I go in the config panel, power management, I see a
hibernate tab. However, when I choose the button to
enable hibernate I get an error "the proces has no access
to the file, because another proces is already using it".

This is absolute strange, since there is
no "hiberfil.sys" on the system.

Besides that I see in the logfiles "ftdisk error ID: 45"
with text "cannot load the crashdump driver". I cannot
understand the ftdisk.sys, which has to do with RAID
disks, stripe sets etc. But this is just an ordinairy
system, with one 40 GB IDE harddisk and one partition.
However disabling this service in the recovery console,
let the system crash during boot.

I couldn't find any information about this ftdisk in
combination with this error-ID; even the MS website is
empty.

I reinstalled XP serveral times, but no luck; problem
stays. Unfortunately I cannot use the recovery CD of my
girlfriend computer, since the motherboard has been
replaced (and it has now a DVD-ROM writer too).

What I tried so far:
- reinstalling it serval times
- from the recovery console "fixmbr" and "fixboot"
- looking to security settings (ACL) on all files in the
root (ntldr etc). I set all ACL full open.. for now ;-)
- trying to find out wich file(s) is written; but even by
logging object access for the system and administrator
account I failed to find the file wich is written
- Updating all drivers to the latest version, certainly
true for the videocard driver.
- update XP to latest servicepack, patches etc.
- On the ASUS website, there is no special driver for
this motherboard in relationship with APCI / power-
management. This is also a fairly new motherboard (bought
feb; '04; it has a BIOS dated Nov '03, which is the
latest).
- Standby mode works fine.
- I tried even to copy an hiberfil.sys from another
computer, but no luck.



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