I was curious to see if my C: drive needed defragmenting so I opened Optimize Drives to find that my C: and partition D: all part of the same HDD are labeled as Solid State Drive but I do not have any . As can be seen from the screenshot The Analyze and Optimize buttons are greyed out. So my question is, is my C: drive being optimized automatically? Why does Optimize Drives says that my C: and D: drives are SSD when in fact they are HDD?
Hi, scopio. Have you gone into your BIOS and seen how BIOS identifies the disk? Does it correctly identify it?
ALSO: Give this a try from an elevated (admin) command prompt: winsat formal
This may reset how Windows assesses that disk.
The BIOS did identify the disks as HDD.Hi, scopio. Have you gone into your BIOS and seen how BIOS identifies the disk? Does it correctly identify it?
ALSO: Give this a try from an elevated (admin) command prompt: winsat formal
This may reset how Windows assesses that disk.
I seem to have solved my problem with Optimize Drives by setting the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically and it now reports my drives as HDD rather than SSD! Nevertheless I did run winsat formal in elevated (admin) command prompt as you suggested report attached plus screenshots. Drive (H) shown on one of the screenshots is a card reader connected to upload the BIOS picture.
Thanks for your help.
You're welcome, scopio. Glad it's sorted!
The BIOS did identify the disks as HDD.
I seem to have solved my problem with Optimize Drives by setting the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically and it now reports my drives as HDD rather than SSD! Nevertheless I did run winsat formal in elevated (admin) command prompt as you suggested report attached plus screenshots. Drive (H) shown on one of the screenshots is a card reader connected to upload the BIOS picture.
Thanks for your help.
What do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
Search "services" in CortanaWhat do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
Open it
Find Optimize drives right click on it and properties
On startup type, change to automatically
Here it's set as manual (presumably default value) and isn't even running and no issues, it detects my SSD and my other 3 HDDs properly. Besides you can optimize (trim) a SSD, the button isn't greyed out
Have a look at these two pages that explain what winsat is;What do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
winsat formal
Using WinSAT (Windows)
