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Used the driver checkup tool on the Intel site, and it reported that all of my Intel drivers are up to date. Went through the whole process of disabling non-MS services and startups via msconfig; no improvement when all third party services are disabled. I am out of town and will not be using the problem system for the next couple of months. When I get back, I will likely invest in a new, higher performance HDD and see if that resolves the problem. If that doesn't improve the hiberread time, I plan to ditch the Dell system and build a new one (I've already had to replace the inadequate PSU and deficient wireless adapter, so I already have two components for the new system). I will let you know if there is any improvement when I get around to swapping out the HDD. While I haven't gotten any improvement in the system yet, the process has been informative. Thanks for your help.

The HDD runs in IDE mode; AHCI does not appear as an option in the BIOS on my Dell XPS435MT. Checked the drive with HDD Tune and it reports that all is OK. Moved the connector from my HDD to a different SATA port on the motherboard, no improvement in reading the hibernation file. Any other ideas?

MagicAndre1981, Thanks for creating this tutorial. I have applied the approach that you suggest, but I am now stuck and need help. I have been struggling with very slow resume from hybrid sleep on one of my systems (I have another similar system which resumes very quickly; the difference in resume times prompted me to try to find out why the one system takes so long, and that research led me to this thread.) OS is Windows 7 x64 Professional with 6GB RAM. Per your instructions, I have run a hibernation trace using xbootmgr and similar to some other users, it shows acceptable hiberwrite time (approx. 21 secs) but very, very long hiberread time (more than 276 secs or over 4 minutes). This long delay takes place before devices start to resume as shown by the xml created by xperf (if I am reading it correctly), and no device seems to take an extraordinarily long time to start. (The xml file is attached.) I have defragged my hiberfil.sys file (by disabling hibernation, restarting, defragging, and then re-enabling hibernation) and have defragged my MFT using third-party software to run a boot-time defragmentation. I have also tried disabling windows search indexer (which apparently helped another user with a similar problem) but that provided no improvement in resume time. From reading prior posts in this thread, I am guessing that the problem may lie with my hard drive. It is a Hitachi HDS721075KLA330 and its specs (7200rpm and 32mb cache) suggest that it should have plenty of speed such that the hiberread time should not be so slow. I have tried to use ProcMon to confirm that the HDD is at fault, but I am unable to get proper results. Perhaps I am not using ProcMon correctly, but after enabling event capture, I cannot successfully run xbootmgr (from an elevated prompt) if ProcMon is open; I get a warning that the trace cannot be started with an error code of 0x000000b7. I can successfully run xbootmgr only if I close ProcMon, but then no pml file is created for the period when windows is resuming from hybrid sleep. Would you be kind enough to look at the xml file created by xbootmgr and let me know if you see anything that might help with my problem. Thanks in advance. summary_hibernate.xml