Hibernate Windows XP and Boot Mac OS X

I primarily use WinXP on my White Macbook, but at times find it useful to use Mac OS X. However, often times I have lots of windows and data open in Windows, and it is a hassle to close out of everything and reboot to get into Mac OS X. Is there any way to hibernate Windows and then boot into Mac OS X (and then when done, boot back into the hibernated Windows so that all my data and apps remain open where I left them)? Or will this just not work, or risk causing major problems? Any help is appreciated.
P.S. I haven't even tried Hibernation with WinXP on my Macbook yet, so I have no idea if hibernation itself even works, much less what I'm looking to attempt.
- Marc

Hi Marc,
while admitting that I never used hibernation with XP, what you want should be doable.
Hibernate saves an image of your desktop with all open files and documents, and then it powers down your computer. When you turn on power, your files and documents are open on your desktop exactly as you left them when you boot back into Windows XP.
In between you can boot into OSX and do what you want.
Before trying out Hibernation it might be a good advise to have/make a backup of your XP, just in case.
And make sure that you have enough free disk space on your Windows partition.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/hibernate.mspx
regards
Stefan

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