I can't remove hiberfil.sys nor enable/disable hibernate. powercfg /h off doesn't do anything (yes, cmd is running as administrator, and yes, I rebooted after this command). hiberfil.sys is taking 25GB of my OS partition and if I can't use it I don't want it there. I want to either enable hibernate or remove that file.
Yes, hiberfil.sys is the memory image used for 'Hibernate' and 'Hybrid Sleep' features. This thought might be kinda far fetched but what if I have pictures of me and my family and w/e stores in the memory and then someone hijacks my computer and get's ahold of it? But you'd usually save those pictures to disk anyway, wouldn't you? So if someone steals the computer and is able to read the ...
I managed to get rid of the hiberfil.sys file by first enabling and then disabling hibernation: powercfg -h on powercfg -h off. Weird enough, it is still reporting "Hibernation file 818 GB" in the system settings, although the hard disk space is freed. Thanks to everyone who posted an answer or commented.
34 I don't think it is possible to "redirect" the path of your hiberfil.sys from "C:\hiberfil.sys" to "D:\hiberfil.sys" for example. I did some research on Google and in the Windows registry, and found nothing but the option to disable it (and consequently delete hiberfil.sys file): Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
I know how to turn off hibernation, that's not what I am asking for. I just want to delete and reset size of hibernation size back to zero. When the hibernation is on, the file cannot be deleted. W...
a hiberfil file is an image of the systems ram at the time it was hibernated. as such, yes, a Hex Editor is likely the best you will get. This task is essentially no different than trying to read the contents of your RAM.
6 You can't move the hibernation file hiberfil.sys. It must must reside on the system partition, as it's used very early in the boot and before other disks become available. To move the page-file: Run SystemPropertiesAdvanced In Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings... Position to the Advanced tab Under Virtual memory, click Change...
28 To delete restore file you can open command prompt with admin privileges and run command powercfg -h off Then reboot, and Windows should automatically delete your hiberfil.sys. If it doesn't, you can remove it manually. Then running powercfg -h on restores sleep and hibernate functionality.
I have Windows 7 running on a small (40GB) partition, with 4GB ram. This means that the hiberfil.sys file created by Hibernate takes up a significant portion of the available diskspace. I would lik...
