Windows 10: Defragmenting (Optimizing) SSD Win 10 Recovery & EFI Partitions ?

Hi

I have a Sandisk 240GB SSD with Win10 installed and I have the built in defragment/optimizer task scheduled to TRIM out the OS partition of the drive on a weekly basis, however, I didn't know whether or not to have it optimize the other system partitions as well...the Recovery & EFI ones. Should I enable that as well?

It reports that both of those partitions need optimization.

Tim

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Windows 10 Defrag

Hopefully I'm in the proper category.

I have Windows 10 and was wondering how one can defrag & optimize the HDD. Though I do not have an SSD installed on my system, it lists my HDD partitions (OS, HP recovery partition, System, Office Click to Run partition) as SSDs. Both the Analyze and Optimize
buttons are greyed, so I cannot manually initiate a defrag. It is set-up for an automatic weekly defrag. But, how can I run a manual defrag or do I have to set-up as a separate task? I have read the other threads on the defrag issue and none provide a proper
answer.

I am using Windows 10 (version 1607/anniversary).

Thanks,

David

 

What is this on my Disk Defragmenter..........

When I do my Disk Defragmenter , I now have 3 drives..... HP 0% Defragmented , Factory Image 0% Defragmented and now \\?\Volume{1549f2 which reads Needs Optimization ( 12% Fragmented ) .

And it will not optimize the drive ????



This is most likely because the EFI System Partition is not normally mounted as a Read/Write volume.

So, again... this is not a problem that needs to be solved...

 

Usually those partitions are not or should not be used for storage of data, don't have much room on them anyway. One could defrag them but I never do. If on the SSD I'd think it best to use TRIM.

 

Hi,

Even if you tried you won't be able to and they're not required to be optimized either as there's simply no file activity on them anyhow.
IOW, you may as well exclude these partitions from the optimization/defrag schedule.

Short of some external software trickery you won't be able to write to these either and in any case should not.

Cheers, *Wink