Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

Yeremyah said:

How do I tell W10 to "Trim" that SDD hard drive?

Windows should detect automatically if the hard drive is an SSD or not.

From an elevated (admin) command prompt, enter the command: reagent /info

See if it lists the ID for that partition that you say isn't a recovery partition.

They likely meant there is no manufacturer restore partition and that's exactly how it looks to me as well as being set up as a GPT disk for UEFI BIOS (not legacy) boot. In this case, you can use Media Creation Tool to create a USB flash drive with your complete version of WIn10 on it it and THAT would be your factory restore media.

Windows will NOT DEFRAG your SSD.

It will only run TRIM weekly or however you set it and may clean up your metadata if need be. If it's causing you that much anxiety just shut it off.

Assuming you have some other sensible recovery mechanism (such as Macrium), delete the 450 MB recovery partition with Partition Wizard MiniTool and regain the 450MB if it means that much to you. Don't delete the 100MB EFI partition, however, unless you want to have to fix the problem of your system not booting.

Here's what's on my "useless" recovery partition:



It has the Windows Recovery Environment on it and provides access (with a Shift-Restart) or in boot failure scenarios to tools such as advanced troubleshooting, a command prompt you can work with, and other recovery options. (No, my recovery partition is not my E: drive, it's just assigned that because I mounted it that way by browsing a full disk backup image in Macrium to generate the view I posted.)

Yeremyah said:

I have this SSD hard drive:

Samsung SSD 650 Series 2.5" SATA 120GB | for Business

Do I need to defrag it? If so, what do I use to defrag it and how often?

Ok I've been following this thread. With Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, all you have to do is connect all the drives you are going to use, internal as well as external. Then you open up an Admin Command Prompt, and copy & paste winsat formal into it.- This will run tests on your CPU, Graphics and all your drives , and set Windows up(i.e. your indexing, disk optimization and hibernation and a few more things) when it's finished, reboot and the settings will be applied. The best thing you can do is "Let Windows take care of Windows". Don't tweak, change, or turn off any settings(specially if you are not an advanced user).