Windows 10: Unable to do disk defragmentation of Hard drive

SirI am unable to do disk defragmentation of Dell Laptop Hard drive other than SSD.It show a message any disk optimization when I click on OPTIMIZATION, NO action was performed. I have Windows 100 as operating system.Please help me

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Disk Defragmenter runs but when finished it now shows 14% fragmented.

Hi Jim,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Provide us with the below details for better clarity on the issue.

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  Did you perform the defragmentation internally or on an external drive?
  
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  Do you face any performance related issues even after the defragmentation?
  

You can ignore the message if you are not facing any performance related issue
after the process is done. It might be due to some error in the reporting. Then it won’t be an issue to worry about. If that is not the case, and you are still facing performance related issues, I suggest you to try the below steps and check if it
helps.

Step 1: Run a Disc Check on the computer.

You can perform a check disk to spot any error in your hard disk. To do so, right- click on the start button>select command prompt (admin)> type “chkdsk” and press enter.

This will display the exact errors occurring in your hard drive. Restart the computer and try Step 2.

Step 2: Perform a Disk Cleanup on your computer.

Refer the link below for steps to perform a Disk Cleanup.

Disk cleanup in Windows

Now, Run Disk Defragmentation and check if the issue persists.

Hope this information helps and let us know the status of the issue we will be glad to help you further.

 

disk defragmentation

Hi,

To defragment your hard disk:

1. Click the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Defragmenter, and then in the list of results, click Disk Defragmenter.

2. Select the disk you want to defragment.

3. Click Analyze disk to determine if the disk needs to be defragmented or not.

4. If fragmentation is above 10%, you should defragment the disk.

5. Click Defragment disk, in order to defragment the disk.

(The above method is based on Disk Defragmenter tool for Windows 8)

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Hard Drive Optimization/Defragmentation

At this stage, it is virtually pointless to defragment a hard drive. Most are entirely fast enough that defragmentation won't produce any noticeable performance improvement. Moreover, many current hard drives are SSDs and it is detrimental to defragment
SSDs. Finally, Windows 10 already runs defragmentation automatically on a schedule. You must disable that scheduled task in order to prevent periodic (once each week) defragmentation.