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That would explain the problem I discovered many years ago with the FAT driver. Under Win2k at least, it appears to save the FAT table across hibernation. So if you while the computer is off unplug a FAT-formatted USB drive, change the contents on a different PC, and then plug it back into the first PC, when you restore the first PC from hibernation it'll corrupt your USB drive. It doesn't crash though, but then again it's probably a lot less complicated than the NTFS driver (which can crash when mounting a sufficiently broken filesystem).

I've got a better idea as to what happened with the second crash. When Windows bluescreens, it apparently writes the memory dump to the page file (the theory being that doing so needs very little of the kernel to be working). Presumably on the second restore attempt it tried to page in something and hit the part that contained the dump, bluescreening and overwriting the existing memory dump.