Error enabling Hibernate Support

[Rosanno Paano]

Hi,

I'm trying to enable the hibernate support in my Dell Latitude C600 laptop
(W2K Pro) but unfortunately an error pop up "
Power policy Manager is unable to reserve Hibernate file

The process cannot access file becouse its being used by another process.

Can anybody help me what can be done to solve this problem?



Thanks.

 

[BT]

Your computer has a feature called Suspend 2 Disk which is a BIOS setting designed to write all memory to disk and shut down in case
your batteries get low. This may be conflicting with Windows hibernate. Some info:
http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/Systems/latls/en/ug/batpower.htm#suspend_to_disk_hibernate_mode

 

[Andrew Johnson]

Hi!

I'm trying to enable the hibernate support in my Dell Latitude C600 laptop
(W2K Pro) but unfortunately an error pop up "
Power policy Manager is unable to reserve Hibernate file
The process cannot access file becouse its being used by another process.

Have a look to see if your hard drive already contains a Hibernation File -
c:\hiberfil.sys (Presuming your Windows2000 is on C:\) Note that the file
is both Hidden and a System file. Running the command dir c: /as from a
command prompt will show it.
If it's there despite Hibernation currently being disabled, delete it and
then try enabling Hibernation. If you can't delete it, check you have Full
Control security permissions on the file. If still you can't remove it, try
booting to the recovery console and removing it from there.
If the file does not exist, check you have enough free space on that
partition for the file - you will need as much free space as you have RAM.

If still no joy, post back here!

Best wishes,

Andrew
Network+, MCSE, CCNA