Hibernation partition - what is - this? How to remove it?

I noticed there is a G 4 Partition on the C: drive called Hibernation Partition.  It's a small SSD 128G, so space is at a premium. It doesn't even have a drive letter mapped to it so I can't imagine it being used somehow.  Also, there's no hiberfil.sys in the c: drive and hibernation is not yet active (under windows), so I can't imagine what possible use this partition is.

I tried to remove it in the usual way using the disk management tool, but when I right click on the volume option is not at all to remove it as it is with the other volumes

Well the hibernation partition is usually a BACK not as FAT12 file system. You may need to use the diskpart command-line command to remove it. Here is an article that will help you:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/300415

List the partitions, and then select the hibernation partition and tries to remove it. Examples are given in the link above. Note the discussion of the substitution command that you can use with the delete partition command.

I would like to make a backup image of the entire hard drive prior to this however, just in case. If you do not want to Hibernate you don't need the hibernation partition. It is always the same size as the installed memory because to Hibernate, it writes the contents of the memory on the disk partition. I thought kind of hiberfil.sys had taken the place of suspension on disk, but obviously not.

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