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Question About Window Resume Loader
My computer went into hibernation last night and now I'm receiving this message during the startup:
"The last attempt to resume the system from the previous location failed. Attempt to resume again?" and gives choices:
- Continue with system resume
-Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu
If I choose the second option what exactly will be deleted? I've seen people on other forums state anything saved while in hibernation will be deleted. I was downplaying audio files at the time when it occurred. Does it include any projects or files in general? I want to make sure the computer isn't going through a factory reset.
My computer runs on Windows 7
Processor Type Intel R Core (TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHZ
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June 8th, 2022 09:00
When your system hibernates it saves the state of system memory, e.g. what programs were running and their state. If you were, for instance, editing a Word document when you encountered this problem, changes you'd made since the last AutoSave would be lost. Files on your hard drive should not be affected, unless there were some other problem present. (Presumably file data that is cached in memory is written to the drive when the system hibernates; at least I hope that's true.) It's NOT a factory reset or anything like it; in most cases your system will just start up as normal.
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June 8th, 2022 10:00
Another way to think of it: If you have to abort the system resume, it's as if the system crashed rather than hibernated. Things that were in process don't get to complete, so all you can do is boot from scratch. (As I said, hopefully some cleanup occurs in hibernation that doesn't in a crash, like writing cached file data.)