Hibernation file Win2K

[Anonymous]

Environment : Win2K SP2
          PentiumIII 733MHz Motherboard ACPI compliant
          256 MB RAM
Problem:
When checking the Hibernation tab in Power Settings, I get an
error message saying:
              Incorrect function
\"Power Policy routine unable to reserve hibernate file\".

- My boot disk is formatted NTFS
- I have space enough (1.3 GB) to allocate hiberfil.sys
- I\'ve logged on with administrator rights.
- The disk is defragged (I don\'t know if that matters)
I\'ve searched the whole world (Microsoft included, of course)
and haven\'t found a solution.
Anybody  has a hint?

[Josetann]

Just a wild guess, but make sure you\'re logged in as Administrator (or someone with Administrator privileges).  Maybe it doesn\'t have the right permissions to run under a normal user (not talking about Hibernate itself...just the setting up of it).

[rdc]

You say you have 1.3gb left of space .
If you have allocated 700 -1400 to your pagefile and your pagefile is 700mb for the moment .your hibernate file 650 + 700 (left to be allocated to your page file) makes 1.35 gb .
Try giving The minimum and maximum pagefile same amount of mb f.e. recommended amount . If the recommended amount is 950mb you will have a 450mb more not allocated to a pagefile.Instead of 1.3 you will have 1.05 gb fully available to place your hibernate file .
I hope this will help you .

[Josetann]

A good point.  Now, the drive\'s free space includes what size the pagefile is currently at.  But, it may not let the hibernation file be created if there\'s not enough room for it, and the maximum size of the hibernate file.

Though I kinda doubt this, as you could specify an enormous maximum size for the pagefile (enough to fill the whole drive perhaps) and still be able to create new files.  Then again, the system might be making sure it doesn\'t do anything stupid, but will let the user do so, lol.

Well, you\'ve got two simple things to try now.  Let us know if either work or if you find a different solution!

[rdc]

Thank you ,you\'ll never know what makes windows tick .

[mjmm]

Thanks to all of you.
My pagefile is fixed size of 381MB.
I\'m setting the hibernation option logged on as Administrator.
I don\'t know why you say Win2K needs such a hugh amount of disk space to hibernate.
I\'ve got another machine with 128MB, which, by the way, hibernates perfectly and hiberfil.sys only requires 128MB of disk space in the root directory of system disk.
So it must be some other reasons, perhaps my PC doesn\'t want to go asleep or something related to permissions of that
damned power routine to access the system volume, that I who am not an expert in Win2K don\'t reach to understand.
Any other suggestion?
Best regards.

[mjmm]

To top it all, I\'ve removed 128MB to lend them to a friend and it happens the same.
Attached file contains snapshots of :
Power management window
Error window
Defrag analysis results
Permissions to C: drive

[rdc]

I know winxp pro needs 650mb to hibernate . I didn\' go back to win2k to see how much it needs . I see you only need 127mb to hybernate , and your administrator cannot reserve an archive to hibernate . I also see that everybody has every permission there is . I see you also have a virtual machine but I don\'t know what causes the error .
I suppose acpi is enabled in the bios .
lo siente ,  pero nadie es perfecto