Windows 10: HDD defrag

Hey! My HDD model: st1000dm010-2ep102 is stuck at 2% in defragmentation,no matter what I do.. 50% occupied. I use latest drivers latest win10 and all,what should I do? Is it a problem? Does it affect my HDD performance and loading times? Thanks if you help.

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Disk Defragmenter won't let me defrag my HDD

Andrew E, your post is slightly misleading, as anything run from the command prompt, even with admin elevation still runs under Windows so files in use will still not be defragged.

You would need a 3rd party app that runs before Windows loads to properly defrag the HDD.

Also Windows defrag will not touch files over a certain size (hence the suggestion to remove the page file), so if your HDD has lots of large files saved in non contiguous sectors defragging will have a minimal effect.

Also even though a disk clean-up is good practice to remove unnecessary files it is not a required step as those files will be defragmented along with any other files defrag can work with.

The main thing the original poster needs to be aware of is that running any defrag app while the Optane acceleration is active could lead to file system errors and possibly break his Windows installation.

The reason being that the Optane driver expects to find the files its caching to be in a particular place on the HDD.

I suggest you read the Optane guides and information on the Intel website and forums before suggesting the original poster tries to defrag using any method.

 

Disk Defragmenter won't let me defrag my HDD

My computer has a HDD and an Intel optane drive installed. I opened the windows defrag tool to try and defrag my HDD and it says that both the HDD and optane drive are SSDs and can't be optimized. I found a troubleshooting guide on how to fix the defragmenter.
I've already tried sfc/scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. The guide also said to check the disk defragmenter service to make sure that it is configured properly, and I can't find any disk defragmenter services listed in the services list.
What can I do to get windows to defrag my HDD?

 

Windows Defrag

When running defrag, there is a drive listing for Windows RE Tools. It shows as a solid state drive and that it has never been defragged. It will not optimize. Clicking on it does nothing. Any suggestions?