Thanks Rob, I had hidden and system set to be shown in WE but didn't see it.
dir /ah from c:\> shows pagefile.sys but not hiberfil.sys I think it's Vista and Seven that automatically delete when you disable hibernation, so I may have confused myself about that, but this is XP and it should be there as you say. For a moment I wondered if the forever hibernation was actually failing before, but there was tons of fragmented free space (47% of 250GB drive) and anyway the restore from hibernation was always successful. I ran MyDefrag (JKDefrag) on "Optimize Monthly" for about 18 hours and it got to about 80% of Zone 6 before we had to use the machine. The docs say it's safe to stop it at any time, and we did. I thought that while it would have to start at square 1 for rigour, that it would get to that same "80% of Zone 6" relatively quickly since we only used the machine for a couple of hours. Last night I started it up in Monthly again and this morning it was at 40% of Zone 4. It's discouraging to think a couple of hours' work would have triggered such extensive re-optimizing, especially since we had to use it for a couple of hours this morning. This morning, I started MyDefrag again and did a Daily optimize (less thorough). It's still looking to be on target for a very long run and I know it won't get to the end before we need the machine again. I'll reserve judgement until we actually start with an optimized drive, but at this rate I'm thinking Optimize Monthly should be Optimize Yearly, maybe over Christmas and Boxing Day! :( BTW I did turn off MSE (and closed all apps) during the optimization as the docs suggested. -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Monday, May 17, 2010, 9:41:31 AM, you wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2010 22:25 -0400, "Andrew Webber" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Should I have been able to find hiberfil.sys, or does XP delete it >> automatically? I figure this optimization is good, quite apart from >> the whole Hibernation issue, which is why I'm letting it run. >> >> Thanks again for all the help! > You should have been able to find it. I think once it is created it is > left in place. It is a 'hidden' and 'system' file though, so it is > likely it did not appear in Windows Explorer. Open a DOS command prompt > (cmd.exe) and type 'dir /ah C:\' and it should show up. You should see > both hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys in the root directory. > And yes, an occasional defrag is a good thing. > Later, > Rob _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
