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I'm on the verge of giving up on this. I thought I would pose the question since I haven't found any answers and some other poor soul might run into a similar challenge.
How do you configure Windows 8.1 to recognize your drive C:\
as an HD after switching from an SSD?
I have a Windows 8.1 laptop that I upgraded from and HDD to SSD a couple of times over the last 2 years. The migration worked fine each time. Windows 8.1 correctly identified the drive as a "Solid state drive" media type under "Optimize Drives". Performance has always been great.
I've since purchased a new laptop and want to migrate my SSD to it, and I only have the original HDD to put back in the old laptop. The HDD no longer had the OS, so I successfully imaged the Windows 8.1 partitions from the SSD back to my HDD.
Windows boots fine. Everything looks good. However I noticed a lot of disk activity. I realize the HDD is slower, but when I went into Windows drive optimization, I noticed that the HDD was set as a "Solid state drive" media type, and that I couldn't run defrag, etc.
I can't find a way to indicate that my drive is actually an HDD. Does anyone have a clue on how to change this so I can get back to defragmenting the drive regularly?
Awesome. That did the trick. I've never heard of the winsat command. Thanks! – garlicman – 2015-03-28T16:41:37.683