Optimize SSD

Clint · 24 Oct 2016

fdegrove said:

Hi,

Are we still talking about the RE partition ?

Cheers,

fdegrove · 24 Oct 2016

Hi,

So, yes it's still the Recovery partition.
Ignore it, nothing's written to it. Nothing's read from it.

Cheers,

Clint · 24 Oct 2016

fdegrove said:

Hi,

So, yes it's still the Recovery partition.
Ignore it, nothing's written to it. Nothing's read from it.

Cheers,

Why does it need it then?

Mooly · 25 Oct 2016

Maybe not having a drive letter decides whether Windows throws up this 'never run... needs optimisation' message. Try deleting a drive letter on another test partition and see if that behaves the same.

I'd say it was a notification that should not be present but changing the behaviour would probably require a rewrite of most of that part of the OS.

CountMike · 25 Oct 2016

Clint said:

Why does it need it then?

Just a list with all storage options and gives you opportunity to defrag if you want to. It doesn't mean it has to be done. I always turn off auto defrag, never defragged manually, without any ill effects. D: and G: are partitions on one HDD that's only 6 month old but F: has been connected for 3-4 years.

Cliff S · 25 Oct 2016

CountMike said:

I see you have an "extra" system reserved(the bottom one) Mike

If you ever want to get rid of it, I have a mini tutorial here: Can somebody help me on how to reconfigure boot loader in Windows 10? - Page 3 - Windows 10 Forums

You also need to read the post #26 on same page.

CountMike · 25 Oct 2016

Cliff S said:

I see you have an "extra" system reserved(the bottom one) Mike

If you ever want to get rid of it, I have a mini tutorial here: Can somebody help me on how to reconfigure boot loader in Windows 10? - Page 3 - Windows 10 Forums

You also need to read the post #26 on same page.

Thanks, it's from C: drive, I already got rid of one that was leftover from W7 or 8, don't remember now. I also made an MR backup with only one System reserved and main, C: partitions but never got around to restore it like that.
This is as of now:

I'm not sure but that unalocated 903MB partition shows up on some but not other partitioning programs and can't do anything with it so my guess that it's over-provisioning space for that SSD. (Silicon Power v700).