Windows 10: Increase your mechanical drive (HDD) performance .

Here are some hints for the proud owners of HDDs & SSHDs to increase their hard drive performance since even the best of systems might have a secondary one of those , which might act as a system bottle neck to a point :

1 - It is better to have your manufacturer driver for SATA controller (Often referred to as Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver or RST Raid by manufacturers) in "Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" no matter how old it is , if windows persist to update it to a different version you may well have to tick "System Properties > Hardware > Device Installation Settings" to No to stop Microsoft from installing its own crippled drivers .

2 - Often check in idle times "Disk Usage" (sometimes Disk) in "Task Manager" , it should be at 0% for elongated spans , fluctuating disk usage at idle time are usually caused by either poorly designed Antiviruses , crazy Superfetch service or use of system Swap , if present you should fix that by swapping Antivirus by a more calm one or nagging your current one's support for a fix , disable Superfetch service , finally note that 8 GB Ram + is the norm nowadays any less and the Swap file abuse may surface . (If you are wondering as of why you should do this it is simply because the reading header of the mechanical disk will be stressed trying to process/copy files you are currently using and yet do the other Antivirus or OS disk activities at the same time which would slow it down significantly) .

3 - Schedule your system to defrag over night , clustered data leave the reading headers stressed trying to collect data from different clusters than if it was in sequential order .

4 - Sometimes windows do a suspicious habit of downloading updates in background without that showing in system until they are ready to install , this might cause the system to show some lag while processing something or playing games , if you are not very fond of that habit you may well set your internet connection to a "Metered" which would inhibit that & increase your disk performance yet remember to do manual checks for updates from time to time .

5 - System restore was initially designed to trigger on schedule but since systems might be off at scheduled times it often runs out of random during user activity , I can not recommend shutting it off despite I often do , but as a hint , when this beast is on , expect everything to slow down not just hard drives .

:)

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
http://windowsreport.com/drive-windows-installed-locked/

 

unlock hdd

Hi Johan,

It is possible that your
HDD was unreadable
causing the error message to appear. We recommend that you perform these troubleshooting steps and check if there are any changes:

• 
  Shutdown
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Unhooked
  the
  HDD
  and
  turn on
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Reconnect
  your
  HDD
  and
  restart
  your
  PC.
  

If the issue persists, we suggest that you contact your
laptop/computer's manufacturer
for further assistance.

Update us on how it goes.

Regards.

 

HDD Corrupt ?

Hi,

There are many possible reasons this issue is happening. We'd like to ask few questions below:

• What is the brand name of you Hard Disk Drive?
  
• How old is the HDD?
  

Since you already tried multiple troubleshooting steps, we suggest visiting the manufacturer's website. Find and download a hard drive diagnostic software to help resolve the issue.

Let us know how it goes.