Defraggler shows my external HDD as SSD on my laptop
Same here, I know this is a necro but was thinkin of buying CCleaner and as I usually do , i decided to check out there simpler offerings. If they cant get simple stuff stuff right then I dont really trust complex stuff. This defraggler cant tell an SSD from a HDD so ill pass on the other if its coded as bad as this…
I have found that all the hard drives on my different computers that recognize HDDs as SSDs have only one partition because I need a large partition for my files.
Can an HDD with only one partition be mistaken for an SSD?
I’m not aware that the partitioning should make any difference.
It just appears to be a fact of technology that sometimes HHDs and SSDs get recognised as the wrong type.
It can happen either way round, and even Windows gets it wrong now and again.
In fact often when a software tells you the wrong drive type it’s Windows itself that has got it wrong, they software has just asked Windows what type it is.
I’m not even sure that there is only one reason why it happens, if there was then you would expect it to have been found and fixed by now.
So I suspect there are various causes for it.