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djdelarosa25
By djdelarosa25
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When I upgraded to the Creators Update, I have noticed that the Recovery partition of my hard drive reads 13% fragmented. I have tried defragmenting it, but nothing happens. Having mild OCD, how do I remedy this?

 

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1 minute ago, TheCherryKing said:

I'm not sure how to optimize it. I have the same problem on my Surface. It drives me insane!

 

Damn it! I feel the same way :(

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I deleted my recovery partition to solve the problem. I do not recommend that you delete the recovery partition.

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13 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

I deleted my recovery partition to solve the problem. I do not recommend that you delete the recovery partition.

 

I hope you created a backup

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I would recommend if there is nothing on the drive, repartition the drive, this should reset the drive back to normal.

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Shouldn't be defragging an ssd. Ignore it. Stop all scheduled defrag.

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15 minutes ago, sadface said:

Shouldn't be defragging an ssd. Ignore it. Stop all scheduled defrag.

 

This isn't an SSD, though.

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34 minutes ago, mjmalec said:

I would recommend if there is nothing on the drive, repartition the drive, this should reset the drive back to normal.

 

How do I do that?

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12 hours ago, sadface said:

Shouldn't be defragging an ssd. Ignore it. Stop all scheduled defrag.

Windows 7 and later don't defragment SSDs. Windows TRIMS SSDs and defragments HDDs.

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You shouldn't be defragging the recovery partition. It really would never impact you anyway since it's only ever used if you need to recover.

As it will be a partition of your main OS disk (that has C: drive) do NOT repartition the disk.

 

If it really hurts your OCD, just remove it from the defragment schedule.

Open Disk Defragmenter, click on Schedule, Select disks, and untick the Recovery partition.

Apply it and it should disappear.

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On 4/14/2017 at 10:15 PM, djdelarosa25 said:

 

How do I do that?

Just Right Click the drive, then click Format, then choose exFat and click Format!

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