Windows 10 wont let me optimize my drives.

So when I open defrag/optimize drives. I will click on recovery and \\?\Volume{6117a5} and it will refuse to optimize. The optimization process wont begin and it will stay highlighted. Especially when I run it in administrator mode

AddRAM said:

Why do you want to defrag your recovery partition ?

No, I want to optimize it.

AddRAM said:

Why do you want to defrag your recovery partition ?

Post a full snip of Disk Management.

Optimise/ Defrag tomatoe tomato

Sorry, i am new to this.

Hi there, Freak456. Welcome to Windows TenForums.

It simply won't optimize recovery partitions nor disks. MS doesn't want them fooled with for safety reasons.

HippsieGypsie said:

Hi there, Freak456. Welcome to Windows TenForums.

It simply won't optimize recovery partitions nor disks. MS doesn't want them fooled with for safety reasons.

Alright, so it wont do anything? Thanks

Freak456 said:

Sorry, i am new to this.

What optimize does is rearrange things on your disk so blocks of data are set more efficiently. For example you may delete your entire music collection and move it to another drive. In that case it would make sense for the file system to delete the old references and move them elsewhere.

This is irrelevant for a recovery partition. The data stored does not change.

Windows should (IMO) not include recovery partition in the defrag screen.

It does though and, as it doesn't ever change, you can ignore it.