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?
Best Answer
It's suggested here that running WinSAT can reset from SSD to HD.
I'm not sure what he means by 'Full Assessment'. The available parameters are on Technet.
You can try
winsat formalIf that doesn't work, try the variouswinsat diskoptions.The maintenance task is supposed to run winsat weekly to detect hardware changes.