Windows Resume Loader - Hibernation Coma Mac Pro
Hi there,
I found this post as i'm now looking for a solution!
I have a Mac Pro Xeon 10.6.4 with a NON-bootcamp (my friend insisted) Windows 7 32-bit install. I have 4 harddrives, and the windows install is completely on it's own 2 TB harddrive.
I had windows running, and left my computer on, and came back hours later, only to find it comatosed. Apparently it's to do with the hibernation feature. It's happened before, but if i just hard rebooted, i would be going again.
This time, I hard rebooted, chose to boot into Windows and then got the "Windows Resume Loader" screen. It gives two options -- "hit enter to resume" or "delete restorative... blah blah....". Only thing is, the keyboard is non-responsive. It just sits there. So you can't choose anything or hit Enter. And I had to reboot again.
I found another post with the same problem and a solution:
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Apple - Support - Discussions - Windows 7 Resume Loader ...
I booted up OSX, then loaded the finder. Went to the Bootcamp partition and found a file called "hiberfil.sys"... I deleted that and restarted, this time booting into windows.
I still got a menu screen with no keyboard response, but this time it was the boot menu, with the default option set to "Start Windows Normally". Once the countdown on the page reaches 0, it will try to start Windows.
I found myself staring at a black screen for about two minutes, then my mac restarted itself. However, once it had done this I tried to boot into Windows 7 again and it did it without any problems.
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Great solution - but I can't find the "hiberfil.sys" file on my harddrive.
I'm looking at the drive through finder on the mac, and I can't do a search, as the spotlight doesn't search my windows drive, so I have to locate it manually, unless there is a way to search for it?
I only find IO.sys, MSDOS.sys and config.sys. on the root.
The other potential problem is this: my windows harddrive is read-only. Now, I could remedy that with something like NTFS Mounter, and do read/write, but is there a way without installing that?
I do have an old pc, but i don't have a keyboard for it. I thought about throwing the harddrive into the pc, and booting it, and then maybe i could purchase a ps2 keyboard (do they even sell those anymore??). But I don't want to spend much money on a solution here -- further more, what if i purchase the keyboard, and it still doesn't work? So, a mac hardware solution would be most preferable.
I purchased Windows 7 only a month ago, so to have this occur is, well, a little dissapointing. I only use it because certain graphics and music programs are only available on Windows.
Any help appreciated.