Can Hibernate Kill Your Hard Drive

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jgraham

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I recently got home from a 10 day road trip. I thought i had completely turned my computer off before i left (i shut off the computer the correct way). My roomate said that the computer was off but my game controller was lit up (still plugged into the usb port no batteries in the controller so the only way it lights up is through usb power) this leads me to believe that it could have been in hibernate during those 10 days it was not in use. The computer was not used at all during the time i was gone. I turn on my computer when i got home, it tells me that windows was not shut down properly and i can decide how to start it up

Safe Mode
Safe Mode With Command Prompt
Etc...

I have tried all of these options, and each time the computer will get to the windows screen with the blue loading bar, the screens go black, and it automatically restarts after 5 seconds of black.
By doing a series of tests I have eliminated that the problem could be : power supply, processor, video card, slave hard drive, external hard drive, overheating problem.

It would be a huge help if someone had any ideas of what i could be instead of reformatting, re-installing windows and losing all of my important files.

thank you very much
 
Unfortunately, a similar thing happened to me randomly once. I never figured out the problem, took it to a PC repair shop even, and the only thing they/I could do was to reformat/reinstall windows :(
 
Hmm. You say it might have something to do with leaving it in Hibernation mode for a long period of time? Hibernation just saves the memory state to the hard drive and then shuts down the computer. So the game controller would have no power.
 
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