Brigadier

I haven't had time to lately, but I'll try it sometime this week and let you know what happens

Sigh. Guess so. Just out of curiousity now, why wouldn't that work? What would happen if someone tried that?

What if I shut my computer off, and booted it through a CD or a memory key or something like that, copied the hiberfil.sys file to another location, say on the memory key or something, turned it back on and hibernated it, and while it was hibernated I went into my computer again and replaced the hiberfil.sys with the original one and turned it back on- Would something like that work?

How would I go about trying to boot from that hiberfil through? I mean it stands to reason that since it resumed from it once and it's still there I should be able to do it again...

Well isn't the old Hibernation state still saved in a hibernation file or something? If i resumed that file wouldn't all my work return? How would I possibly boot back into that old Hibernation file? I assume my data is still in the hiberfil.sys file, so shouldn't I still be able to retrieve that somehow? If not by forcing it to resume directly from that file, by somehow reading the file? Though booting from it would be ultimately more preferable because I had other programs open at the time, as well.

I'm running an Alienware M17x, and I had been working on a couple of unsaved notepad files recently that were pretty big. Probably should've saved them, but I didn't, and instead I'd just set my computer to Hibernate when I was done working. Anyways, I took it out of Hibernate today and decided to run Crysis to take a break for a short while (I had multiple IE tabs and windows open as well as my notepad docs, all from before hibernation if that makes a difference) and I got BSOD'd. Is there ANY possible way I can recover those notepad files? Temp folders or anything?? I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate