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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?

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  • Do you use original Windows 7? I mean.. loaders and mods can cause this. A lot of people were talking about such problems and finally I found out that their loader ruined it. (Just an idea, no offense.)
    – Apache
    Jun 22, 2010 at 9:39
  • No, none that I know of. Is there a way to tell if there is one installed (I'm thinking a virus/another user...)?
    – Kryten
    Jun 22, 2010 at 10:03

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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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  • I use Linux in dual boot with Windows, it didn't even cross my mind that changing the active partition caused the issue. Interesting issue.
    – gogeccc
    May 21, 2016 at 0:17
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Try recreating the hibernate file:

  1. Open cmd.exe in admin mode, by typing cmd in start menu and pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter
  2. Type powercfg -h off
  3. Type powercfg -h on

Check if you can hibernate now.

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  • No it still doesn't work. Tried running "shutdown /h" again and got "The system cannot find the file specified.(2)"...
    – Kryten
    Jun 22, 2010 at 10:15
  • Was there any error when you tried to turn -h off or -h on?
    – KalEl
    Jun 22, 2010 at 11:04
  • No, there were no errors (there was actually no output at all). I also ran "sfc /scannow", but still not working...
    – Kryten
    Jun 22, 2010 at 11:06
  • Have just done a System Restore: still nothing
    – Kryten
    Jun 22, 2010 at 11:59
  • Did this start happenning after you did something specific?
    – KalEl
    Jun 22, 2010 at 13:40
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Fixed the problem. On the "advice" from a friend, I set the active partition from the 100mb "System" to C:. Restarted, "Windows Boot Manager Failed to Load Windows". Inserted installation DVD and select "Repair your Computer". When it was searching OS's it came up and said I had a boot manager problem and do I want to repair it? I did and Windows loaded. I can now hibernate! I can also see Windows 7 listed in the “Start-up and Recovery” Options (see this question). Windows boots instantly and is actually a lot snappier! I have no idea how this could have helped, but it did. The only problem is that the Windows Boot Screen is the old "Vista" style (i.e. just a progress bar at the bottom), so anyone knows how to fix this, then please say.

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    I don't understand you friend's advice to change the partition marked as "active" (bootable). This strikes me as a kludge to force "Repair your Computer". You should have been able to boot the Win 7 install DVD and "Repair your Computer" without mucking around with your partitions. Oh, well. Jun 23, 2010 at 16:50
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Got the same problem:

>shutdown /h
The system cannot find the file specified.(2)

My solution was enabling automount via diskpart.exe:

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: FELIX-T420SI

DISKPART> automount

Automatic mounting of new volumes disabled.

DISKPART> automount enable

Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled.

DISKPART>

Following a restart, hibernation now works.

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