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SSD is reported as "Hard Disk Drive" instead of "Solid Sate Drive" in Windows 10 "Optimise Drives" display,

Hi,

I recently cloned my complete Windows 10 installation from a hard drive to a Crucial SSD using the Acronis Cloning software that Crucial supplied. After cloning, I removed the old hard drive and was happy to see that Windows loads fine from the new SDD, and everything seemed to be working fine.

However I have now noticed that the SSD (which is now my 'Drive C:')  is still listed as a 'Hard Disk Drive' when I bring up the  Defrag and Optimise Drive app and not as "Solid State Drive".

This is worrying me as I understood that Windows needs to correctly recognise the drive as a solid state drive in order to apply the correct optimisation policies.

My question is how can I make Wiondows 10 correctly treat the drive as a Solid State Drive?

Regards

Dave

Hi David

Click your Start Button, then just type cmd

From the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

Paste this command and hit Enter

WinSAT formal

When that command completes, close Command Prompt and check if Windows now recognizes the drive correctly . . .
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Thank, but I had already tried that after reading another posting.

Anyway I tried it again and it made no difference - still reports as Hard Disk Drive in Optimise Drives.

BTW I forgot to say that when I right click the drive in Windows Explorer and select the Hardware Tab, it reports:

CT500MX5 00SSD1 SCSI Disk Device

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Hi,

I have encountered this before... Both going from a HDD to a SSD, and from a SSD to a HDD...

It seems that which ever type was in use at the time Windows was installed, is what I was stuck with...

The only way I could get it to recognize the drive properly was to reinstall windows...

There may be easier ways to correct this, but at the time, I could not find one...

Sorry not much help...

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Hi,

I don't know if this would be helpful or not... I am unable to test it at the moment...

In looking for a solution I stumbled across a thread that someone claimed the winsat formal would not resolve their problem, but that winsat diskformal did...

I ran the command on my machine, and it completed... but only scanned C:\...

It completed successfully, but since I had no error to start with at the moment, I don't know if it would resolve your issue...

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