{"id":637,"date":"2019-01-16T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/partition-work-warning-system-is-in-hibernated-state\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:52:15","slug":"partition-work-warning-system-is-in-hibernated-state","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/partition-work-warning-system-is-in-hibernated-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Partition Work Warning: &#8220;System is in hibernated state.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff5500;\">Problem:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>When Partition Work is started the following warning is displayed even though an installed operating system is not in a hibernated state:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Warning: System is in hibernated state. Making changes can cause corruption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff5500;\">Cause:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The detected state can be incorrect in cases where the hibernation file was not properly cleared (reports hibernated state when not hibernated).<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff5500;\">Solution:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>You can safely ignore this warning if you know no installed operating system\u00a0is in a hibernated stated. Otherwise, you would boot to the hibernated operating system and return to a non-hibernated state before making partitioning changes.<\/p>\r\n<p>If Partition Work is incorrectly reporting the hibernated status of Windows, you can determine the partition by selecting it and clicking the <strong>Properties<\/strong> button. The <em>Additional Information<\/em> section of the dialog will show \"Hibernated\" if that state was detected. To clear the incorrect hibernated state you can do the following:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Boot to the affected Windows system.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Open an Administrator Command Prompt and run the following command:<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>powercfg \/h off<\/strong><\/span> <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>If you do use hibernation on the system you can re-enable it:<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>powercfg \/h on<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>An alternate method that can be used for Windows 8.x\/10\/11 would be to enable the <em>Fast Startup<\/em> option in Windows and then restart into BootIt BM\/BootIt UEFI and use Partition Work to disable it (this will also clear the hibernation state).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: When Partition Work is started the following warning is displayed even though an installed operating system is not in a hibernated state: Warning: System is in hibernated state. Making changes can cause corruption. Cause: The detected state can be incorrect in cases where the hibernation file was not properly cleared (reports hibernated state when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1825],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119,2120],"class_list":["post-637","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-uefi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/637\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}