windows 7 - Laptop won't sleep with 2nd hard drive

06
2014-04
  • Liam William

    I have installed a 2nd hard drive into my laptop and now Windows 7 refuses to shutdown all or sleep all the way.

    The screen goes black and the computer's fan just stays spinning and it never enters sleep or hibernate mode.

    I have checked the sleep settings and they appear to be just fine. Additionally everything works just fine as long as leave the cdrom in instead of the hard drive.

    I own an elitebook 8460p and I am replacing the cdrom with a 3.5 in sata hard drive.

    Thanks!

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  • Scott Bilas

    My Windows 7 (x86, Pro) laptop no longer hibernates. When I tell it via power button or "shutdown /h /f" it fades out the screen to black, but doesn't do anything else. Doesn't even go into a sleep state. Hitting a key pops the screen back on.

    I've tried disabling and reenabling hibernation to clear the hiberfil.sys, but it makes no difference. If hibernation is disabled, sleep works fine.

    This problem started happening immediately after swapping hard drives. I used Ghost 14 to restore a backup to a new drive then plugged it in. Windows wouldn't boot (BOOTMGR problem) so I ran a repair from the Win7 disc. It's been working fine since, aside from inability to hibernate.

    Nothing is showing up in the event log that seems new or relevant.

    Any ideas on how I can diagnose or resolve this?


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  • Scott Bilas

    It turned out to be some kind of problem with the boot partition. While Windows booted fine and showed no problems in the event log, running the Win7 "startup repair" did find and repair problems. Once this was done, the machine hibernated fine again. (shrug)

  • CGA

    You could try this troubleshooting tutorial. It's for Vista but should also work for 7.

  • yummer

    I had the exact same problem. After cloning my old hard disk to a new disk using Clonezilla, the computer booted and worked fine, but hibernate did not. Screen was going black, but it never hibernated - moving the mouse would bring it back to the desktop.

    The first thing I noticed was the default operating systems was blank in the dropdown here:

    Start > right-click Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings > Startup and Recovery Settings > System Startup

    This pointed to a problem with the boot partition.

    To fix this I used Disk Management (Start > right-click Computer > Manage > Disk Management) to set the C drive (the second partition after the small 100Mb or so one) as Active.

    Immediately restarted and used Windows 7 DVD to boot. Click Repair, and use the Startup Repair wizard to find and fix the problem.

    This time, when rebooted I got BOOTMGR is missing.

    I then booted a second time using Windows 7 DVD, used the Startup Repair wizard again.

    On the next boot, Windows started normally, and now Hibernate works.

    I can only think the clone operation corrupted the boot partition somehow - not enough to stop Windows booting though. It seems Startup Repair needs to be run twice to totally repair the partition and bootloader after setting C drive as an Active partition.

    Hope this helps someone else, as it's taken me all day to sort this out :)