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27 Oct 2024:
windows ate my hard drive

Windows ate my hard drive

Alarmist headline apart Windows 10 has been treating my old spinning rust mechanical hard drive as an SSD!!

Which has been painful to listen to and completely unexpected.

I wanted to test Meta Quest Link app on my desktop setup in Windows before I tried Linux as a benchmark. But every time I tried to get something working I would get non stop hard drive noise, even when it was idle.

I checked the disk optimisation and realised my drive was being identified as SSD, which meant it was not being treated nicely.

in a Windows Admin command line window

winsat formal

did actually fix this for me, then 2.5hr of defragging and the drive a lot more settled.

If that command doesn't work for you then these were also recommended.

winsat diskformal
winsat disk -drive X

where X is your drive

Now the Meta quest app is not behaving, but that's a story for another time...

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