Spill_5 Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 My external HDD is displayed as an SSD since I've replaced my internal HDD by an SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted August 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 20, 2018 Sadly both ccleaner and speccy suffer from long standing bug(s) which can cause drives to be misidentified as the opposite type of drive. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted August 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 20, 2018 and you can also add Defraggler to that sad list. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spill_5 Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 You're right : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki605 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 9 hours ago, mta said: and you can also add Defraggler to that sad list. I had to go back to Defraggler v2.21.993 for this very reason. I've stopped updating all Piriform (Avast) programs. Sad state of affairs. Win10 Pro x64 Desktop (Speccy) - Win10 Pro x64 Laptop (Speccy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted August 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 20, 2018 what I have found Nikki over the years is with each new release of Speccy, CC and DF, what tends to happen (for me at least) is if the current version reports the drive as one way (right or wrong), the next version reverses it. I've even had one product report it correctly and another wrongly - then the two swap their detection with the next release. I've also seen the same version get it right or wrong depending on the brand of SSD - which is why not every person has this issue. there is definitely an issue and other programs get it consistently right (like Microsoft's own OS) so there should be no reason Piriform can't pull their fingers out and fix it. but from reading between the lines when Admins do deem us worthy and throw us some tit-bit details, I have gotten the impression that their coding department is small, like VERY small, like I reckon you could count them on one hand - the same hand that had that industrial accident and lost 3 fingers. that's how many programmers I think they have to play with that support all their products. that may have (should have) changed now Avast is calling the shots, but with their entire focus being blindly pointed at CC, and now with the mess that that is currently in, being forced entirely on CC, don't expect any fixes for the other products any time soon. the SSD <--> HDD issue is at least 2 years old, then there's the Speccy wrong temperature long running bug - it is at a point now where I've stopped using them as you simply can't trust the figures. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spill_5 Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 If this problem is present for years as you state it, then probably it won't be then fixed.. : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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