Window Hibernation question.

[NadaisaGod]

Often, when I'm downloading something at night, I may tend to fall asleep, and my computer sets into hibernation mode in 30 minutes. This is fine and all, but I'm under the impression that hibernation mode writes your current point to the hard drive. When you resume status, does your computer automatically delete the checkpoint of sorts, or does the checkpoint remain, with no further use, merely wasting space? If the latter, can anyone tell me the file that I have to access to delete the files?

 

[Kirby King]

I think (not sure) that when you enable hibernate on your computer Windows creates a placeholder file on your hard drive that's as big as your system's memory. This is necessary so that you can always actually go into hibernate mode--if your hard drive didn't have enough space and the file didn't exist, there would be no way to save your memory to your hard drive, so having the file prevents that from happening.

I would think that the file is emptied when you come out of hibernate, so you don't have to worry about it. In any event, the space on your hard drive is already reserved, and depending on how your computer was set up, might even have been created on a separate partition so there may not even be any real point to disabling it.

 

[NadaisaGod]

Alright, thanks a lot.