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How to boot ATIH 2012 When PC is resuming from hibernate?

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Last night I used ATIH 2012 to take a full system image of my Lenovo G770 running Windows 7 and saved the backup file on an external USB hard drive. When the process was complete I hibernated the computer whilst the USB drive was still attached. This morning I tried to resume the computer from hibernate and received an error message from the Windows Boot Manager like so:

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible

I suspect that this relates to the external USB drive, though it remains attached and powered on. The problem is that I cannot bypass this message. Every attempt to reboot with/without the USB drive ends with the same error. I'd like to either force a restart, and forget about resuming from hibernate or restore from last night's backup to correct the issue. However if I try to boot from USB or CD I just end up at the same windows error. If I try to enter the bios by pressing F* keys repeatedly at boot time(I've tried them all!) to check the boot order, I just end up at the Windows Boot Manager, not in the bios probably because the system is trying to resume from hibernate .

Can anyone help, I need this machine for my work. Completely stuck.

Thanks

Riskybiz

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Entering the bios setup on your Lenovo requires you to push F2 as soon as the Lenovo logo appears on screen. The hibernation file information is read from the boot record of the hard disk in your system. It is possible that your may have some corrupt or missing files pointed to by the hibernation file, and were only apparent after restarting your system. Starting your system up to a Windows 7 installation disk should allow you to run the Startup Repair utility to correct the boot record, bypassing the hibernation file. Also if you can get to a command prompt while booted to the Windows 7 disk, you could locate the hiberfil.sys file (usually in the root of your system drive ie: C:\) and delete it. This should cause Windows to try and boot normally since the hibernation infomation is gone/corrupt. If you delete the hibernation file, and you do get back into your system, be sure to disable hibernation, and re-enable hibernation so that Windows will create a new hiberfil.sys. If you can boot from your Acronis recovery disk, you could restore your last backup, but you may find that the error booting into Windows could possibly still be there. If the problem existed during backup, but had yet to be discovered (because the system had not been restarted before the backup), you will still have to try the Startup Repair, or possibly a Windows 7 repair install. Although this may be related to the USB drive being attached, that is not likely (but possible). To prevent that possibility in the future, be sure to use the Safely Remove Hardware procedure to shutdown your USB drive (it would not have to be removed) before hibernating your system to be sure Windows does not require it to be attached to resume from hibernation.

Edited to correct spelling of hiberfil.sys.

Thankyou James. It was necessary to remove the HDD so that the recovery disk would boot (the resume from hibernation was blocking it somehow), after a restart I was able to access the bios. I then replaced the HDD, booted from the recovery disk once more, allowed the recovery program to repair the startup error it found, reebooted once more and hey presto the Windows desktop came up. Thanks for your suggestions.