Help - I killed my SSD drive

[lightningbaron]

If you don't use hibernate, turn it off in command prompt, run as administrator In the window, type the following and hit Enter:
powercfg /hibernate off

 

[Hopeless22]

For the future, use Easeus todo free. I spent a lot of doing performing the exact steps OP did. I've been cloning all of our 320gb HDD to 120gb SSD's(there is an option to 'optimize for SSD'.

I know it doesn't help much now, but definitely check it for the future.

 

[Borg20001]

For the future, use Easeus todo free. I spent a lot of doing performing the exact steps OP did. I've been cloning all of our 320gb HDD to 120gb SSD's(there is an option to 'optimize for SSD'.

I know it doesn't help much now, but definitely check it for the future.

Thx Hopeless, I will check on Easeus todo free.

I turned off Hibernate and now consistently have 18 gb free of my 60 gb SSD so for now the problem is solved. Except I have this 120 GB SSD just sitting around.

I may go find Easeus todo free and see if I can clone my 60 gb drive to my 120 gb drive, but I don't want to go through all the machinations I did last time I tried to clone the drive and ending up temporarily "killing" it.

I still can't remove the hibernate.sys file and the pagefile.sys file, but I' ok for now for operating space on my OS SSD.

 

[sm625]

I still can't remove the hibernate.sys file and the pagefile.sys file, but I' ok for now for operating space on my OS SSD.

Open a command prompt in Windows 7 by typing cmd in the search box. Right click Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator.

type the following command at the prompt:

powercfg –h off

Do that and your hiberfil.sys will be gone.

I dont really recommend doign that though, since hibernate works pretty well nowadays. Not perfect, but well.