Sony Vaio Rapid Wake Not Working After Memory Upgrade

[sub3marathonman]

I upgraded the Sony Vaio from 4gb to 12gb, and everything went fine.

One detail though is now the Rapid Wake is not working, because the original hidden partition Sony set up for it is now too small.

I'm wondering what the options are to get the Rapid Wake working again.

I think I know the hidden partition it was originally on, is it possible to attempt to expand that hidden partition and see if it would work again?

Is it possible to use a USB 16gb drive and set it up for the Rapid Wake storage?

Is it possible to just set up another disk volume specifically for the Rapid Wake, and somehow connect that disk as the Rapid Wake disk?

Thanks for any/all help.

 

[jsmithepa]

There is an easier way, IM very HO.

I don't know why they call it rapid wake up, because, well, there is a faster way. This wakeup mode requires a hidden partition because it writes the ENTIRE contend of RAM into HD/SSD? and then have to RELOAD the whole content again when you wake it up. This wake up mode is often called HIBERNATE, and more technically ACPI mode 4.

I submit to you, don't hibernate, do SUSPEND, which is ACPI mode 3. It does not write anything to disk, it just shuts off everything and maintain minimum power to ram so it's not erased. When you wakes it up in this mode, the CPU state is merely restored and told to point to the place in RAM that it was last left off. Single digit Seconds. Why would you need it to be faster? No hidden partition to deal with.

There will be some people who argue about power consumption but I have not noticed any to compel me to hibernate.

 

[sub3marathonman]

Thank you jsmithepa for your suggestion, and you are probably correct that there could be a better way, especially as you stated, "this wakeup mode requires a hidden partition because it writes the ENTIRE content of RAM." I don't see why the partition should be or must be hidden either, as if it was just designated such as problem as I and others encounter when upgrading RAM would be eliminated.

I'm needing the Rapid Wake restored though, as it is a safe-guard against the laptop running out of battery power and losing data from sleep mode. For this laptop too, it indicates that the battery is less than optimum.

Now, yes, you shouldn't be leaving data in sleep mode, and then letting the laptop run out of battery power, but people have done more ridiculous things. One time I, well, that's another story.

Since the power settings on the Vaio put it into sleep mode, and there seems to be no way to set it to hibernate if the batteries run out, I'm still hoping to have the Rapid Wake restored. Unfortunately the people who should help, Sony and the Sony forum, are of no help at all. So I'm very thankful to have Tom's Hardware and the people here helping others.

 

[jsmithepa]

If you insist... am not totally versed on Sony but it sounds like to me, in order to enlarge the hidden partition, you may have to reset laptop to factory and install Windows fresh (and lose your custom settings). The manual doesn't talk about it?

Now are you sure Sony uses this hidden partition for the purpose? because standard Windows hibernate uses c:\hibernate.sys and all you have to is to delete it, reboot, and Windows will re-create it with the new size.