The easiest way to delete it is to turn off the hibernation feature. To enable or disable hibernation mode from the command line, use to following command sequences. If the batteries are exhausted completely while still running or in Sleep mode because Hibernation has been disabled, all work will be lost and the next time the computer is powered on there will be a notification that it had been improperly shut down, offering a number of recovery startup options, including Safe Mode, none of which can fully recover data lost because open files were not saved. Google is also currently unable to deliver any relevant results for this problem. It is recommended that you save all your data and reboot the system after resume finishes.
Please Note: Using System Restore will not affect your documents, pictures, or other data. However, in many cases, users want to disable hibernation to save disk space on the partition where Windows is installed. This hibernate feature was engineered to make shut downs and restarts faster on laptops, as well as conserving battery power. If all of the above steps were unsuccessful, and Memtest86 finds memory corruption, it highly likely that your hiberfil. It says, A problem has been detected yada yada yada Check for viruses on your computer.
Your computer will make a nice new Hyberfil. Click on hibernate tab and enable or disable the option here. Urgent help most appreciated - I have struggled to find much on Google of either of the above black screeen errors. To see its extension, click View and then click File name extensions. Recommendation: Optional Offer for WinThruster by Solvusoft Causes of Hiberfil.
Type regedit and hit Enter. Have you receive any error message? To avoid this, try to uncompress the hibernation file using this command: powercfg hibernate size 0 Then run the command to use the reduced hibernation file. In fact, use of the command line tool to remove the hibernation file is recommended in several boot recovery scenarios. The powercfg command line tool automatically deletes the hibernation file when the setting is disabled, as well as properly configuring registry and boot settings. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Hiberfil. Need to learn what all those details mean in the Event-Viewer.
Conclusion: From my understanding, fast startup acts as a subset of hibernate. The hibernation file is very huge. The following are the ways in which hibernation along with hiberfil. It may ask you to reboot the computer, click on the reset button to take effect of these changes. Here's a summary of the behavior now: Shutdown, no fast startup: Able to start up normally without any unexpected behavior. I like to turn off hibernation, which removes the hiberfil.
Shutdown, fast startup enabled: Computer immediately shuts off just after reaching the Windows boot screen. I followed these instructions to turn it off: Immediately after unchecking the box for fast boot I hibernated and the system resumed with all apps. When Windows 10 gets into hibernation status, your computer will be shut down and all contents saved on the memory saved to the hard disk. But on rebooting I got this message: Your system's firmware did not preserve the system memory map across the hibernate transition. I disabled fast startup, which corrected the problem when shutting down. A few places I saw Googling suggested typing powercfg -h off from an elevated command prompt to turn off hibernation though I didn't think it was on.
Not so the hibernation file. Hpefully the upcoming updates improve on these issues. Q: Is it a virus? I can also boot into other. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Click on Command Prompt Admin. Although later versions of Windows include the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, I highly recommend using instead.
Everything was fine up after the upgrade up until now. I did a couple of reboots, shutdowns and turn ons and the laptop seems to work fine. If you need to free up your space quickly or if you are running low on disk space and this prevents you from finishing your tasks, you can delete the hiberfil. As one other already commented, the difference between Sleep and Hibernate. In fact I installed and re-uninstalled them again, separately just to be sure. According to the , hiberfil.