Unable to Reserve Hibernate File

[geoffat]

I recently re-installed XP w/SP2 on my laptop. When I go into the
power manager and check "Enable Hibernation" I get an error box titled
"Power Policy Manager unable to reserve hibernate file" with the text
"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process."

Before re-installing XP I had no problems with hibernation. Any ideas
on how to fix this?

-- Geoff

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Geoff,

Reboot with hibernate disabled, delete the hiberfil.sys file on the root of
the system drive, then try restarting it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[geoffat]

I solved it by booting into safe mode and from the command prompt:

del/a:s hiberfil.sys

However, I suspect that your solution would have also worked.
-- Thanks, Geoff

 

[gkestner]

another solution to hibernate problem

assuming windows xp
Start-> Run-> msconfig
on each of the tabs (4) that allow it, click "disable all", then reboot.
Try enabling hibernation again.
Start msconfig again, enable all on the four tabs, reboot.