We were looking for something like that, Joseph - I'll pass it on. Wading
through the Power Settings didn't make that clear. 

(just found the same advice from Hanselman, too)

  _____  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

  _____  

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Joseph Clark
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:41 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question

 

The hibernate file apparently can't be moved. 

Not a direct answer to your question, but although you can't move
hiberfil.sys, you can remove it entirely if you don't use Windows Hibernate
(see
<http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToFreeingUpDiskSpaceUnderWindowsVista.as
px>
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToFreeingUpDiskSpaceUnderWindowsVista.asp
x)





On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

A colleague recently bought a desktop built by a local computer shop, and
was talked into a 60Gb SSD drive as his system boot - his intuition was to
go for 120Gb. 

No problems until he tried to install the SP1 of Windows 7 Ultimate, when
Microsoft assistance calls still couldn't solve why it failed to install. 

It turns out his 60Gb drive is 55Gb only, and he had 47Gb used. So he moved
all his special folders off to another drive, and I suggested he change the
swap file to another drive too. 

The hibernate file apparently can't be moved. 

Anyway, this just an interim strategy until he gets SP1 of Windows 7
installed. Then I guess he can put the swap file onto the SSD to get
performance back. 

It raises the question to me of what size system drive - SSD or other - is
optimum (and how the hell do you decide on that)? 

  _____  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

 

Reply via email to