when i try and enable hibernation i get the message:

“the process cannot access thed file because it is in use by another process”

any ideas how to get it working? (this is a new xp pro install, sp1, sony drivers etc…)

I never did fix this!

Come on guys!

Surely someone has had this problem too?

Never encountered this one.

Does it say what file? Is hibernate enabled in the control panel, power options? Might turn it off, reboot and turn it back on. <grasping at straws>

cheers dbs but i already clutched at those straws :(

nah it dosnt say what file its talking about which is the most annoying thing.

The message box that pops up with that error shown above has the title “Power Policy Manager unable to reserve hibernate file”.

Cant be disk space either as it dosnt seem to indicate a problem there.
Disk space free: 1,944 MB
Disk space required to hibernate: 1,019

The only reason this stopped working was that i did a clean install of XP pro sp1. Something must have got broken along the way but no clue as to what.

you bro have u done this yet?
1. go to power options in control panel
2. go to the hibernate tab and uncheck the enable hibernate.
3. click ok and make sure ur hybernate file in c:\root is gone (hiberfil.sys)
4. reboot and then re-enable hyberate, this will give u a NEW hiberfil.sys file.  make sure it’s new.
perhaps the old file got corrupt. there is also a useful tool called systemfile defragger @   that defrags the hybernate and pagefile. who knows? good luck

Just as a point of note.

Some software can mess up hibernate. I installed and old piece of software from PowerQuest called DataKeeper which backs up files as they are created or updated to a defined external or local area. It runs in the background all the time. WIth this installed on my TR it prevented hibernation from working. Removed the software & everything OK again.

jiggy,

my problem is precisely that I *can’t* tick the hibernate tickbox, ‘cause when I do it gives me the errors ive listed in previous posts. Therefore im unable to untick it!

My problem is not that I cant hibernate (although its true that I cant), but that im unable to *activate* hibernation.

Thanks anyway,

ah, no clue then - sounds like ur c drive is locked up. have u tried writing another file there?

jtu100…

You might try a Google search on the error message. Here’s a link to a Google search return that might lead to some answers:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=“Power+Policy+Manager+unable+to+reserve+hibernate+file”

One link on this page that looked like it might help was (see the last post):

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-22240.html

You might also try doing a search on Microsoft’s Support Knowledge Base for the error messages you’re seeing.

Hope this leads to some resolution.
Tom

Cheers tom,

ive now fixed it. it was daemon-tools that was stopping it hibernating, just uninstalled it and its now working. i did a search on google for this all those months ago but i swear it didnt find any matches…

oh well, alls well that ends well