Windows 10: Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

Discus and support Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive? in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; 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... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by Yeremyah, Oct 24, 2015.

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  1. AXE0
    axe0 New Member

    Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?


    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
     
    axe0, Oct 25, 2015
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  2. YEREMYAH
    Yeremyah Win User

    So I should DESELECT C: so W10 cannot ever defrag C:?
     
    Yeremyah, Oct 25, 2015
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  3. WORD MAN
    Word Man Win User
    Probably because it's never been optimized and MS' programmers haven't polished that t--d yet.
     
    Word Man, Oct 25, 2015
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  4. YEREMYAH
    Yeremyah Win User

    Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

    I don't have a recovery partition. So what else could that VOLUME be?
     
    Yeremyah, Oct 25, 2015
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  5. YEREMYAH
    Yeremyah Win User
    How do I tell W10 to "Trim" that SDD hard drive?
     
    Yeremyah, Oct 25, 2015
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  6. WORD MAN
    Word Man Win User
    Show us the map from Disk Management - it doesn't show 2 partitions?
     
    Word Man, Oct 25, 2015
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  7. AXE0
    axe0 New Member
    Access your disk management and you can see what partitions you have.
     
    axe0, Oct 25, 2015
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  8. AXE0
    axe0 New Member

    Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

    Windows should detect automatically if the hard drive is an SSD or not.
     
    axe0, Oct 25, 2015
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  9. WORD MAN
    Word Man Win User
    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.
     
    Word Man, Oct 25, 2015
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  10. YEREMYAH
    Yeremyah Win User
    Dropbox - screenshot.2015-10-2.jpg

    What is that "recovery partition"? I was told by the people I got PC from there is NO rescue partition and I am unable to restore W10 to factory default. How do I load that recovery partition and how can it store W10 when it's so small in size, only 450MB?
     
    Yeremyah, Oct 25, 2015
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  11. GARY
    Gary Win User
    The partition may be hidden but it is not relevant to defraging it. I would not do it. Your SSD must have come with some software and a manual. Read it and if you have the software use it. I know nothing about this "Hansen" that Word Man posted about.

    That 450 Mb partition is useless. I deleted mine. and extended the space on the SSD.
     
    Gary, Oct 25, 2015
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  12. YEREMYAH
    Yeremyah Win User
    So I am back to square 1 *Sad I have NO idea if I should allow W10 to defrag my SSD drive once per month or once per week, or completely DISABLE it forever?
     
    Yeremyah, Oct 25, 2015
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  13. WORD MAN
    Word Man Win User

    Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive?

    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.
     
    Word Man, Oct 25, 2015
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  14. GARY
    Gary Win User
    No you are not. Do not defrag it, if you want you can let it optimize it.
     
    Gary, Oct 25, 2015
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  15. WORD MAN
    Word Man Win User
    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:


    Do I need to defrag my Hard Drive? [​IMG]


    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.)
     
    Word Man, Oct 25, 2015
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