Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

Yeremyah · 25 Oct 2015

What is that bottom listing, it says SSD, but called:

Volume/926 etc....

Why does it say C: is enabled to be defragged by W10 but not the other VOLUME listing which also says it's an SSD.. says "NEVER RUN"?

Dropbox - screenshot.2015-10-26.jpg

Word Man · 25 Oct 2015

Because it's a protected partition that the optimizer can't access.

Yeremyah · 25 Oct 2015

Word Man said:

Because it's a protected partition that the optimizer can't access.

But W10 says "NEED OPTIMIZATION", why?

axe0 · 25 Oct 2015

That would be a partition you cannot access, like a recovery partition.

Windows says that, because it doesn't have optimized that partition.
It is also not needed as it is on the SSD

Yeremyah · 25 Oct 2015

So I should DESELECT C: so W10 cannot ever defrag C:?

Word Man · 25 Oct 2015

Yeremyah said:

But W10 says "NEED OPTIMIZATION", why?

Probably because it's never been optimized and MS' programmers haven't polished that t--d yet.

Yeremyah · 25 Oct 2015

axe0 said:

That would be a partition you cannot access, like a recovery partition.

I don't have a recovery partition. So what else could that VOLUME be?

Yeremyah · 25 Oct 2015

axe0 said:

Never defrag an SSD, it would only damage the SSD thus shorten its life time.
Trimming is however useful for SSD's, but not really necessary.

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

Word Man · 25 Oct 2015

Yeremyah said:

I don't have a recovery partition. So what else could that VOLUME be?

Show us the map from Disk Management - it doesn't show 2 partitions?

axe0 · 25 Oct 2015

Access your disk management and you can see what partitions you have.