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I have lack of space on my root(Windows 7) drive. There is hiberfil.sys that size of it is almost 3GB . I know use of hiberfil.sys:

HIBERFIL.SYS is a file the system creates when the computer goes into hibernation mode. Windows uses the file when it is turned back on.

I don't want to disable hibernate .
Is there any way to set hiberfil.sys to another drive that data would be store there?

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No you cannot, there is simply no way. – HackToHell Mar 20 '12 at 11:41
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Obligatory Raymond Chen: Windows Confidential: The File System Paradox – grawity Mar 20 '12 at 12:12
This has to be a dupe. . . – surfasb Mar 20 '12 at 13:34
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The "external-drive" tag is also worrying. Computers don't like it when their memory can walk off. – MSalters Mar 20 '12 at 13:39

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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 made a research on google and on Windows registry and found nothing but the option to disable it(and consequently delete hiberfil.sys file):

  1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
  2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
  3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
  4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
  5. Type exit and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.
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This is not the answer, the OP doesn't want to disable hibernation. – cjb110 Feb 8 at 10:44
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Unlike SLEEP mode, where everything which is running on your system is stored in your RAM, (which is kept powered), HIBERNATION it copies the entire state of your RAM to a file called HIBERFIL.sys. That is why that file has to be at least as big as size of your RAM. Your computer turns off altogether, as it doesn't have to have any of your components under constant power.

BUT, next time you want to get your machine woken up from Hibernation state, to find it at the same point where you left it, it needs that boot-up sector of your System disk...

Unfortunately there's no way to move that HIBERFIL.sys around to your other HDDs or partitions.

This is unlike PAGFIL.sys, which you CAN relocate to some other physical disk or partition, so your system disk doesn't have to handle the Pagefile.

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It should be on the same disk as booloader (NTLDR/BOOTMGR) so bootloader can pick it up early and copy to RAM.

Try moving the bootloader.

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After moving bootloader, How could I redirect the path of hiberfil.sys ? – hamed Mar 20 '12 at 19:32
It will be on the same partition as bootloader, in the root folder. – Mikhail Kupchik Mar 29 '12 at 11:47
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My bootloader is in other drive, I was suspected. I think it don't related to bootloader. It related the Windows partition. – hamed Mar 30 '12 at 14:49
This is actually the closest to an answer I think, you can't tell windows to look some where else. But it depends does windows look at the root of where it's installed, or the root of the boot drive?? (these by default are the same, but by no means have to be). If its the latter then this answer will work (if fiddly to achieve). – cjb110 Feb 8 at 10:43
rereading the Raymond Chen post, it does say boot drive, not Windows install drive... – cjb110 Feb 8 at 10:45
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To stop the Hibernation service in Windows Vista or 7:

  1. Click on the Start button and in the Search field type cmd
  2. When the command prompt opens, type powercfg.exe -h off
  3. Exit the command prompt

At this point a few important things will have taken place in Windows:

  1. hiberfil.sys no longer exists in Explorer (i.e. is deleted, thus freeing up a lot of disk space),
  2. "Hibernate" is no longer available from the Shutdown options in the Start menu, and
  3. obviously, you will no longer be able to place Windows into a hibernation state (S4).
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In the question is explicitly stated "I don't want to disable hibernate." Hence your is not helpful in this case. – Robert Nov 23 '12 at 15:56

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