Should "Defragment and Optimize Drives" be running for an SSD?

Thank you a ton - that is all I was really trying to accomplish and I thought it had something to do with what I was trying to do all this time.

Hmm, guess I missed that part ... sorry about that. Thought is was just the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller / Driver issue.

I could of sworn I ran that Winsat before with no luck - what changed this time that I ran it?

No clue, unless it was using the nForce Serial ATA Controllers and getting them under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller vs Storage Controllers.

I think you're good to go now, but check the following tutorial about trim if need be - Enable or Disable TRIM Support for Solid State Drives in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

Glad you got it sorted out tho and your welcome :)

Yeah - if you go back to my post #11 and read from there, you'll see why I chimed into this thread to begin with. I know for a fact that adding the Serial Controller from the link you provided for my chipset download had everything to do with Winsat working this time - after all, what other explanation could there be? I did try the Winsat command before and it was before I had tried any of the fixes that you guided me through.

Yep, I just didn't go back that far in the thread and I have to agree that using the nForce chipset drivers is what got winsat to run :)

You mean, got Winsat to run correctly - I did run it before and Disk Optimization always flagged the Drive as a HDD after running winsat formal.

Yep .. lol

I wonder if there is a tutorial for this problem with people who have older systems and decide to install a compatible SSD.

Don't know, but I doubt there few (if any) formal tutorials, too many legacy chipsets to deal with.

I mean, this was really hard to figure out and I couldn't of done it until there was an extra set of eyes looking at the problem from a different perspective.

Yea, I hear ya ... Only reason I had a clue ... I use to have an HP with that exact chipset.

EyeInTheSky said:

This computer is almost 10 years old, and it is running as fast; if not faster than the day I bought it.

@EyeInTheSky,

Is your SSD identified correctly on the "Defragment and Optimize Drives" screen?

I'm upset though, I right clicked on NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller and selected to update the driver; which it did:

Not sure why you'd try and update the driver for that legacy nForce chipset, pretty sure you had the latest
Did the driver vers change or did Win10 just stick them back where it wanted it (under storage controllers) ???

BTW .. if you're gonna try and fix again. Instead of going thru what you did last time. I'd try the Add Legacy Hardware first (IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers and manually add the two nForce Serial ATA Controllers ... driver should still be there). Then I would delete those two under Storage Controllers (don't check the box to remove driver) and hopefully on the reboot it will be back to where it was ... before you tried updating the driver.