Ascii2 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) I seek a way to enable hibernation functionality ("Hibernate") for Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 without selection the option via the GUI provided by Windows (I am using an unattended installation of Windows).The method supported by Microsoft Corporation is detailed in Knowledge Base article:How to manually enable the Hibernate feature during an unattended installation of Windows 2000http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293399The method described does not seem to be reasonable. Computers with 4096 MB of memory, would also have a 4096 MB hiberfil.sys file. Way too much to fit a a disc. Also, I am uncertain whether the Heuristics value applies to hibernation for all computers running Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4.Does an easier method exist to enable Hibernation? Edited September 26, 2008 by Ascii2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I seek a way to enable hibernation functionality ("Hibernate") for Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 without selection the option via the GUI provided by Windows (I am using an unattended installation of Windows).The method supported by Microsoft Corporation is detailed in Knowledge Base article:How to manually enable the Hibernate feature during an unattended installation of Windows 2000http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293399The method described does not seem to be reasonable. Computers with 4096 MB of memory, would also have a 4096 MB hiberfil.sys file. Way too much to fit a a disc. Also, I am uncertain whether the Heuristics value applies to hibernation for all computers running Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4.Does an easier method exist to enable Hibernation?It works...... But you have to format the installation drive in NTFS. FAT or FAT32 doesn't support large files bigger than 4GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted September 20, 2008 Author Share Posted September 20, 2008 Perhaps what I wanted was not well understood.I want to enable hibernation for Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 without having to maintaining copies of hiberfil.sys files. It would good if the hiberfil.sys file may be created without having to store a copy on the installation media(s) in its entirety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip1001 Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Why don't you use the powercfg.exe in Win2k? The executable works in Win2k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 (edited) I did not know that powercfg.exe existed.It appears that I shall need the powercfg.exe from Windows Server 2003 (not from Windows XP Service Pack 2). Edited September 22, 2008 by Ascii2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 (edited) It appears that two powercfg.exe utilities exist for the 32-bit Windows Server 2003 family operating systems: powercfg.exe from Windows Server 2003 (Gold or RTM) and powercfg.exe from Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2.Which Windows Server 2003 powercfg.exe should be used with Windows 2000?Also, which powercfg.exe utility is compatible with Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (x86)?EDIT: I would speculate that the powercfg.exe utility included with the Gold Windows Server 2003 can configure power settings for Windows 2000 (except Terminal Services), gold or with any Service Pack, and Windows XP, Gold or with Service Pack 1 (maybe also later versions). It may be that Microsoft Corporation made newer powercfg.exe utilities incompatible with older operating systems.EDIT2: I verified that powercfg.exe for the Gold Windows Server 2003 works on Windows 2000. Edited September 22, 2008 by Ascii2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 This issue in this thread is resolved.Thanks Flip1001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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