removing battery in laptop during hibernate?

[gnef]

Hey guys, I am looking into getting a laptop, and since I am looking into long battery life, i will most likely get a second battery for any laptop i buy. What i am wondering is if after running 3+ hours or hopefully four hours... the battery drains, so i hibernate the laptop. The question is if i can remove the current battery and replace it with a full battery without any damage or problems?

I'm already thinking the answer is no, because i had thought that even in hibernate, the laptop uses some of the battery, but i would like to be able to do this nonetheless.

thanks!

-Gnef

 

[WobbleWobble]

Hibernating writes your RAM to your hard drive and is shut off completely. It's suspend that keeps minimal power on to power the RAM.

 

[gnef]

so just to confirm - when the computer hibernates, it is possible to replace the battery with no ill effects?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Right

Remember if you're using Windows XP that you need to hold "shift" if you want to hibernate when you get the options to Stand By, Restart and Shutdown. Stand By should turn into Hibernate when the shift key is held.

 

[corkyg]

The best advice I can give is to not use Hibernate at all. It has ruined HDDs now and then. The best thing you can do is run it and turn it off when finished.

 

[gnef]

how does it ruin the hard drive?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: corkyg
The best advice I can give is to not use Hibernate at all. It has ruined HDDs now and then. The best thing you can do is run it and turn it off when finished.

How is that so?

It writes RAM to the hiberfil.sys file does a normal shutdown at the hardware level, parking the drive head in the process. This is no different that just shutting down or reading/writing normal files to the hard drive.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: corkyg
The best advice I can give is to not use Hibernate at all. It has ruined HDDs now and then. The best thing you can do is run it and turn it off when finished.

I have never heard of this and use XP's hibernate feature on hundreds of laptops with no ill effects.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: corkyg
The best advice I can give is to not use Hibernate at all. It has ruined HDDs now and then. The best thing you can do is run it and turn it off when finished.

Ssssshhhhhhhhhh, people who repeat silly rumors they heard via e-mail spam chains back in the day shouldn't speak these things on forums.
Seriously, there is no advantage or disadvantage to useing Hibernate. Technically it does put more wear and tear on your HDD than just doing Standby (which maintains power to the RAM), but nothing more than average use will do.