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Old May 31st, 2012, 04:58 PM
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Default How have you dealt with hiberfil.sys?

Since SSDs are still relatively small in size compared to HDDs and hiberfil.sys takes up quite a bit of real estate, how have you guys with an SSD or a small HDD system partition dealt with it? - disable hibernation, move hiberfil.sys to another drive, or just leave it as is?

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Old May 31st, 2012, 06:02 PM
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Old May 31st, 2012, 06:21 PM
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Same as this..
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Old May 31st, 2012, 10:47 PM
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Also disabled and deleted. I don't really see much value in hibernation. Sleep, yeah, I use that a lot. But I'd just shut down before using hibernation.
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Technet says it cannot be moved.

edit: thanks treehouse

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Technet says it cannot be done.
I think lurker20 means that it cant be moved. It can however ofcourse be deleted

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Old June 1st, 2012, 10:38 AM
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I agree with allizomeniz so since hiberfil.sys can't be moved to another drive, I'll disable it. Thanks to all for your feedback.
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On a desktop just disable it and delete the file if it still exists, Hibernation has never worked right for me on a desktop anyway. On a laptop, I would buy an SSD large enough to account for it.
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Open up an elevated command prompt and type:

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This will disable hibernation and delete the file.

I do this on both laptops and desktops. I've always found standby to be perfectly fine for laptops instead of hybernate.
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Have a look in here http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showt...wpost&t=324910
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Thanks CR, but that deals with the pagefile, not hiberfil. Since the pagefile can easily be moved to another drive/partition, that's not a big issue for me. But as the very large hiberfil.sys can not be moved I just deleted it using funkydude's method (above).

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Hi, yes my bad Don't have my full thinking head on today it seems
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