Windows 10: Does Windows 10 or 11 disk optimization routine recognize an SD card as SSD?

I have an SD card in my Surface Pro 6 configured in device manager as a separate D:\ USB NTFS mass storage device. Does the Windows Optimize Drives schedule treat it as an SSD or as a spinning drive? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I think the best-practice defragmentation routine is already scheduled by Windows and that it recognizes important differences between a solid-state drive and a spinning drive when installed internally. But I manually ran the optimizer today on my D:\ drive and it took longer than I expected.I posted this as Windows 10, but the if there is a difference in Windo

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Windows 10 does not recognize 128gb micro sd card

Hi Steve,

To better assist you, provide us with the following information:

• Do any other SD cards work on your Windows 10 laptop?
• Have you tried checking if your Kingston SD10VG2 works on other computers? If not, we suggest you to do so.
• Were there any changes made on your laptop prior to this concern?

For possible resolution, check if the SD card is listed in Disk Management by following the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + X.

2. Click on Disk Management.

3. Check if Kingston SD10VG2
is listed.

If the SD card is not listed in Disk Management, we recommend you to check
for an updated driver from the manufacturer and have the latest version installed. After ensuring that the correct driver is installed, check if the device is recognized in the Device Manager.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Win10 doesn't recognize SD-card removal

Could you provide a little more detail as to how you know that Windows is not recognizing the removal of the SD card? What are you seeing specifically that leads you to this conclusion?

Also, could you please try this:

Start with SD card inserted.
Open a command prompt and run the command "diskpart". Wait for the "DISKPART>" prompt.
Run the command "list disk".
All disks (including the SD card) should be listed. It should be obvious which the SD card is by its size.
Remove the SD card.
Run "list disk" again.
Does the SD card still show up?
Run "exit" to exit from diskpart.
Close the command prompt.

 

Windows 10 recognizes my SD Card as a local drive

Jon,

You posted that you would try the suggested steps by Tryx3. May we have an update if the suggested steps have resolved the issue about your SD card being recognized as a fixed drive in Windows 10?