Hibernate with reboot instead of power off

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Hi. Is it possible to configure Windows (XP/2k/2k3) to
reboot right after hibernate? Normally it power off after
hibernate. You may ask, Why?

Suppose that you have more than one OS on different
partitions, say you have Windows XP on one partiton and
Windows 2000 on another. Now you might want to use Windows
2000 system on another partition while you're working on
Windows XP but you don't want to lose what you're working
with on the XP. What would you do? You set your 2nd
partiton to be the active partition using the Disk Tool
(or you may have a boot manager which can be configured
which partition to boot next time), then you hibernate the
XP. Then you "have to press the power button manually" to
restart the machine before it will boot to the 2nd
partition with Windows 2000. Now you can work on your
Windows 2000 system. Want to go back to XP? Yes, do the
same thing, hibernate the 2000. But you have to press the
power on button again right?

So why not reboot automatically right after hibernate?
Suppose that you're working remotely using some sort of
remote admin software and you don't want to drive from
home to office just to power on a machine when you should
be able to do it remotely. Any one know how?
 
Hi Roy,
Since Windows 98 cant read NTFS, so i guess it wont create much of a problem
if you hibernate XP and boot into 98. Going through some research on this
matter...will let you more into this soon.
 
Simply put, when you hibernate XP and boot into 98, there is a *global*
change in HD structure, so XP is falsely led to believe that it is in the
same state before hibernating, when it is NOT. So that is the catch...and
this could lead to problems.
 
Roy,
HD issues is just one part of the whole thing. XP might be resuming from
hibernate and meets a device that has been messed around by 98. Since XP
wont know about it, so that might cause a problem.

On the whole, just AVOID multi-boot and hibernate together.
 
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