Hibernate problem

[NotMyBest2Day]

This is the first time I've had this problem, but my laptop won't let me check the "enable hibernate" feature. I've got a handful of HDDs for it and it's worked before. I hooked the current HDD up in my main rig (with the help of a 3.5" to 2.5" adapter) and formatted it like I do with all my HDDs: NTFS, 512-byte sectors, no label, compression. I thought maybe it was because I had compression enabled, so I decompressed the entire drive and rebooted, tried it again, and the same error message that comes up is "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." I even tried making the file and putting it where it belongs, but that still doesn't work.

I'm out of guesses.

[therealwesty]

Is there enough free disk space left to make the hibernation file?

It sounds like something you are using requires access to a specific file, and that access is preventing the hibernation process from doing what it needs to do with the process. Does the error message provide the file name? If so you may be able to track it back to a device or application that you can disconnect or terminate when you want to hibernate the laptop.

[NotMyBest2Day]

IT doesn't give me any info. There's 10gb free and it only needs 128mb. It doesn't say what process is being a b!tch or anything. It's really baffling me. I was thinking about forcing it via the registry, but I don't know if that would actually work.

[NotMyBest2Day]

The drive was toasted. Whenever it would have to write something to the pagefile, the whole system would lock up for about five minutes and then there'd be a loud clunk from the HDD and then the activity light would start flickering instead of being on solid for about five seconds and then clunk real loud again and start working normal. I put the HDD in my main rig and tried formatting it and after 45 minutes it hadn't even started, so it's dead.

I put another 60gb drive in the main rig and formatted that like I always do, but I didn't enable compression this time, installed 2k, moved 45gb of music to it then enabled compression on the whole drive, defragged, and the hibernate file had 4,000 fragments after defrag and the first time it came out of hibernation, I got some error that asked if I wanted to try to boot the system normally, so I hit yes, and now it does nothing. I'm going to have to wipe it and try again.

The 2k installation can't even find the OS on the drive, and I loaded up the repair console and through some poking around, the error messages told me there is no 'CurrentControlSet' tree in the registry. Definately going to have to wipe it and try again.