Hibernation - cannot enable

[Robbo]

Hi,

When I try to enable the hibernation in the power management window, I get
the message that translates to something like this (I am using non-english
version) :

"Power options manager could not allocate the hibernation file. The process
cannot access the file because it is in use by another process".

How could this be used by another process? I am using Windows XP Pro with a
single user scheme. I have 1.5 GB of RAM but enough disk space for the
hibernation file. Also I tries to find the "hiberfile.sys" but such file
does not exist.
Any cure?

 

[jg]

I am guessing
you may need about to 1.5GB x2 =3GB of free space:. That is the minimum and
you still have to allow for system temp space and the spaced needed for
updates, and defrag

look under systems applet (start menu, control panel, system), advanced tab,
performance settings button,
- Advanced tab,
- look at the bottom section for virtual memory, what does it say for total
paging file for all drives?
- click the virtual memory change button, what does it say for C:?
_ if it is custom size of min and max, the default for your sys are 1.5Gb to
max of 3GB, furthermore chances are it used only 1.5GB now. This means, the
system is reserving another 1.5GB for expansion
- The hibernation file will be 1X 1.5GB
total minimal space requirement 2x 1.5gb plus some spare to system temp
space.

Depending on PC, some pc takes a long time to hibernate, like those with 3GB
RAM, faster to just suspend.

 

[Robbo]

I am guessing
you may need about to 1.5GB x2 =3GB of free space:. That is the minimum
and you still have to allow for system temp space and the spaced needed
for updates, and defrag

look under systems applet (start menu, control panel, system), advanced
tab, performance settings button,
- Advanced tab,
- look at the bottom section for virtual memory, what does it say for
total paging file for all drives?
- click the virtual memory change button, what does it say for C:?
_ if it is custom size of min and max, the default for your sys are 1.5Gb
to max of 3GB, furthermore chances are it used only 1.5GB now. This
means, the system is reserving another 1.5GB for expansion
- The hibernation file will be 1X 1.5GB
total minimal space requirement 2x 1.5gb plus some spare to system temp
space.

I have another partition just for the swap file. It is 3.2 GB total size
with currently 2.2 GB of free space. The page file (pagefile.sys) is 1 GB at
most of the time (actually I don't remember getting this larger). My virtual
mem settings are:
C - no pagefile.
F - custom size min 1024 MB, max size 2048 MB (F drive is my partition
dedicated for the swap file).
Currently allocated : 1024 MB

Am I guessing correctly that the hibernation file goes to the same drive
where the page file goes? Is there any way to change this?

I have 4.6 GB free space on drive C at the moment.
In the power options / Hibernation tab it says: free space required for
hibernation: 1536 MB, Free space is 4 636 MB.

So, still no luck...