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Delete hiberfil.sys on Windows 7

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202622617 views
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Ok, so I know what hiberfil.sys is, and I want to use hibernation on my laptop. But I have another hard drive active in my laptop, it's taken from my old one... and I want to get rid of the hiberfil.sys on that drive. But even with admin privileges I can't delete it. Any ideas?

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Fix for: Delete hiberfil.sys on Windows 7

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To delete restore file you can open command prompt with admin privileges and run command Then reboot, and Windows should automatically delete your . If it doesn't, you can remove it manually. Then running restores sleep and hibernate functionality. …

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