Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:

> Step one would be to get a computer with a solid state boot drive...

Yes. AFAIK the hibernation always has to sit in the system's boot
directory.

> Historically this has been a disk partition which is dedicated to
> storing ram, but don't know the specifics on what it has evolved to
> in the current incarnations of windows.

Ever since MS has implemented the hibernation feature in its OSs and the
introduction of the ACPI standard (long after it had been introduced by
COMPAQ for its portables) hibernation has been working with the
"hiberfil.sys" sitting in the system's root.

> In any case, I would guess that getting the computer to "hibernate
> into" a different disk hardware location plus getting the wakeup to
> restore from that non standard location would not be a trivial task.

AFAICS impossible. But I have dropped this matter from the list of
themes to watch. So it could be that I'm not really up-to-date. But I
simply can't remember to have come across a Revision of the ACPI
standards in so far.

Rainald