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too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« on: May 20, 2012, 09:05:13 AM »
I'm still kinda tired, just sitting at the desktop. I don't even remember what made me think of this, all I know is the what I found.

I have a 13gig hibernation file, 5.7gig page file and 262meg swap file on my D: partition. I can only see these when "hide protected operating system files" is unchecked in the control panel. I also have a 2gig page file on C: partition. Hibernation is off via the "powercfg -h off" option under command prompt as administrator (right-click, run as admin while in start menu). If I turn it on (-h on) I can see the file reappear on C:. Is there any reason for those 3 files to be on D: at all? I have hibernation turned off, shouldn't hiberfil.sys not even be there? I certainly wouldn't mind having a little extra free space for game installations seeing as I'm limited on this one Raptor.

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Re: too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2012, 02:13:50 PM »
It's possible you may have specified in the past that your hiberfil.sys should be placed on the D: drive. It should be possible to delete the files in the space you do not want to have them.

Running your elevated cmd prompt, you first want to make it a standard file so it's deletable, then issue the del command to delete it. It should go something like this:

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attrib -s -h hiberfil.sys
del hiberfil.sys
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Re: too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2012, 05:48:59 PM »
Tried it. Got "access denied - D:\hiberfil.sys"
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Re: too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 09:31:50 PM »
Hmmm, I think that worked in XP, I guess 7 is protecting it a bit more. That's when I might turn to Unlocker (http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/) One of the things Unlocker allows you to do is delete files that claim to be locked by another process or program at the next boot.
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Re: too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2012, 06:43:30 AM »
Sweet, will try soon.
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Re: too friggin early for hiberfil.sys
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 07:05:25 AM »
Worked wonderfully. +1 interwebs for you.
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