Hi Al, it turns out to be a Windows XP hibernation file. After turning
off "hibernation" the file was immediately deleted from the system.
Thanks for your effort, it is appreciated.

Cheers,
Alan.


Alan,

I did a search at www.dogpile.com and it looks as though "hiberfil.sys"
is one of a series of files created
when Win 2000 is upgraded to Win XP. My initial guess would be that it's
a file used to restore parts of Win
2000, but like I stated, it's only a *guess*. Here's the link for the
search that I did. hth
http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=%22hiberfil.sys%22&geo=no&fs=we
b

Al Thompson



> I have installed Windows XP RC1 on a dual boot PC. There is a file in
> the root directory called hiberfil.sys. This file is using about 804
> MBs. Does anyone know why a file of this size has been created?.
System
> restore has been turned off so I don't think it was created by that
> program.
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Priol.

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