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I would like to move Hiberfil.sys to another partition. I am running out of space and moving this would be easier and less time consuming than to re-size all partitions.
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You cannot. Because the Hibernate File must be readable by the bootloader, it must be stored on a specific sector of the hard drive, on the primary system partition. It cannot be moved.
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...Add to that a mandatory small pagefil.sys to record memory dumps on error and there is an awful lot of my 128Gb being wasted for systems that are rarely used.
May I point out that UNLIKE hibernation.sys file, the PAGEFILE.sys CAN BE MOVED AROUND YOUR OTHER HARD DISKS...
I always make an extra partition on already other hard disk, that is just for pagefile purposes, and it does, first of all, free CPU and MEMORY stress and speeds up the entire process... That "feeling" of things being faster depend, of course, on the amount of work you are putting to your comp to do....
But, running into same problem (small 128 SSD), I removed hiber.sys totally and moved PAGEFIL.sys to other disk, my C:system disk got more air and entire process of chewing and spitting out large amounts of HD-edited video got simply faster!!!
MarinVanja,
I am surprised you noticed any speed difference when you used your SSD for editing HD video. Usually the speed limiter when rendering video is your CPU. Usually the CPU is maxed out and working to save it to your drive. Are you using an nVidia-based GPU with CUDA?
...Add to that a mandatory small pagefil.sys to record memory dumps on error and there is an awful lot of my 128Gb being wasted for systems that are rarely used.
May I point out that UNLIKE hibernation.sys file, the PAGEFILE.sys CAN BE MOVED AROUND YOUR OTHER HARD DISKS...
I always make an extra partition on already other hard disk, that is just for pagefile purposes, and it does, first of all, free CPU and MEMORY stress and speeds up the entire process... That "feeling" of things being faster depend, of course, on the amount of work you are putting to your comp to do....
But, running into same problem (small 128 SSD), I removed hiber.sys totally and moved PAGEFIL.sys to other disk, my C:system disk got more air and entire process of chewing and spitting out large amounts of HD-edited video got simply faster!!!
My understanding is that access to other hardware does not come early enough in the boot to allow the hibernate file to reside on another drive.
Symbolic links will not work as a result.
You cannot. Because the Hibernate File must be readable by the bootloader, it must be stored on a specific sector of the hard drive, on the primary system partition. It cannot be moved.
If this solves your issue, click the 'Propose as Answer' link below, and vote as helpful by clicking the green triangle to the lelft. Thanks!
And what about using symlink?
As I know those are available in the early begining of the windows startup process.
Will it work?
Does anyone tested it before?
Thank you.
