We used to run defrag and regclean and all kinds of stupid utilities but now I have a SSD and regcleans don't do anything - or they take out keys you need.
So I'm left wondering, what do you do with Win 10 and a SSD to get it all tuned up?
TRIM Support Results Description
NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Disabled) TRIM support enabled for SSDs with NTFS
So, a query result that says Disabled means that TRIM support is Enabled? That's like Press Enter to Exit!
One of my reasons for asking is that my machine takes a really long time to boot, in the realm of minutes sometimes, when an SSD is supposed to be quicker to boot than a conventional drive. And 1 year later I've still got problems getting all the disks recognized each time I boot. I usually have to boot, make sure J:\ has been seen and if not, Restart.
The machine sees the missing J:\ drive after a Restart but I'm starting to wonder if my BIOS is in the correct mode. I've attached a pic of the disks but I need to know what the critical BIOS settings should be for the disks listed. Being in the wrong Legacy/EUFI mode (or whatever) could explain all my troubles. I was confused by all that when I built the machine and nothing's changed.
Can you tell me what the BIOS settings should be for the disks shown?
>It's strange that Disk 0 isn't your boot drive.
Yeah, and I suspect that's not all that's strange.
>If the J drive has problems, that could cause boot problems for the whole system.
We've been through that in another thread. Win 10 will claim a problem when there isn't a problem, I've proved that by getting a disk recognized when Win 10 claimed it was hosed or needed formatting. I can also take the suspect disk to a Win 7 machine where nothing is found to be wrong. So how do you determine whether a Win 10 claim is true? I agree though, that is a possible cause.
As for the mobo, all I can remember is that it's an Asus Rog Strix gaming mobo, how can I find out the rest?
I'll start diagnostics but I've got a strong intuition that it's a BIOS setting because I've had trouble with almost every disk I own. I had messages about the semaphore timeout period being exceeded when the semaphore thing is more of a networking message, never got to the bottom of that.
So how do you determine whether a Win 10 claim is true?
Like I said, you run diagnostics on the drive. Seatools for Seagate, WD Data Lifeguard for WD, etc.
You can try looking in the BIOS/UEFI for the motherboard info, or you can open the case and look. If you had the motherboard manual, that would work too.
Did you update your BIOS/UEFI? That should be available on the Asus website.
>If you had the motherboard manual
The manual!? It must be bad if you have to resort to the manual
This from Speccy:
Motherboard
Manufacturer ASUS
Model ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING (LGA1151)
Version Rev 1.xx
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model Coffee Lake
Chipset Revision 0D
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model Z390
Southbridge Revision 10
System Temperature 33 °C
CPU
Intel Core i9 9900K
Code Name Coffee Lake
Package Socket 1151 LGA
Technology 14nm
Specification Intel Core i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
>If you're not using M.2 drives
The boot drive is the only SSD.
I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting. Do I reassign the disks in the BIOS according to something I'll find in the manual or do you think the misplaced boot drive is the only one I should change?
* Ran diags using Seatools and Dashboard - found bad blocks
* Switched out the drive, copied the data to the new drive
* Changed all MBR disks to CBT
Just doing that has made sure I get all drives when I boot, I don't have to restart to get J:\ drive to appear.
>You'd need to plug the SSD into port SATA1 so that it shows up as Disk0.
A question: How am I going to put the M2 where the J:\ drive is when they have different connectors? The M2 pushes into a connector and has a dust cover, J:\ has a SATA connector and a power connector. See pic.