Windows 10: Toshiba Laptop locked into Hibernate during boot

So I finally got a few minutes and pulled all the screws ( about 10) out of the back of recalcitrant Toshiba in preparation of removing half ( 2 GB) of the RAM chips only to find out that a single screw secured the panel that covers the RAM, coin battery and hard drive, let me take a moment to face palm *Confused....its been a while since I have opened it up. Like I said, this computer has been so trouble free, I only cleaned it a couple times in 5 years. So back go the screws and then the moment of truth...the RAM is all on a single board, so no splitting to see if it will quit hibernation with 2 GB RAM. While I was there, I took out the coin battery and pushed the power button to remove any residual juice. I figured at this point it cant hurt any more...I popped it all back together and hit the power button to find that I was in the BIOS setup screen. YAY ! That means that a usb recovery is possible with a different boot sequence. However, before I get all crazy with switching things around, I thought it would be a good idea to ask you, ...is it possible to turn off the hibernation in BIOS?
As a side note, as soon as I exited BIOS setup, it went right back to the hibernation circle....but I see a light on the horizon. Now I have two positive options open, one: a usb boot, two; remove the hard drive, strip the files and reformat...BUT, I would like to get this computer back to normal without any real wear and tear, so I keep plugging away at it. Kind of a toy, an aggravating, make-me-think toy.........Thanks for you help too Bree....*Smile

 

I don't think so. But now you can get the bios screen booting from usb should be possible. The simplest way to kill hibernation is just to delete the hibernation file.

Boot from a recovery drive or an install usb, find your way to Advanced Settings, Troubleshoot and run the Command prompt. Your Windows C: drive will NOT be C: at the moment as you didn't boot from it. Some other letter will have been assigned, so you'll have to look for it. Mine ended up as E: (yes, I'm running through the procedure on another laptop as I type).

To delete the hibernation file I used these commands:

CD E:
DIR /A:H
(just to check I'm on the right drive, the /A:H is required because hiberfil.sys is a hidden file)
DEL /A:H hiberfil.sys
(ditto, the /A:H)

At this point you can just power down and try booting up from the HDD.

If you successfully boot to Windows, a new hiberfil.sys will have been created. You may want to turn off hibernation for now in case it gets stuck in a loop again. From a Command prompt (Admin) type powercfg /hibernate off