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The thread discusses a Windows 10 user experiencing issues where their 3TB Hitachi UltraStar HDD is being incorrectly identified as an SSD, resulting in slow boot times and misreported defragmentation tools. Multiple contributors suggest that cloned drives may retain SSD-specific flags in the registry, which could be causing the problem, but they don't provide a direct fix. The original poster expresses frustration with the lack of clear solutions and emphasizes that, based on system specs, the slow performance is unexpected, and their attempts to resolve it have not yet succeeded.
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Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my
3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD
it insists its a SSD.
My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order.
Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not only is the system HORRENDOUSLY slow but when I check system defrag it insists drive "c:" is a ssd.
if I run "defraggler" it does see it as a HDD but not the win 10 defragger.
The bios is set to uefi.
now I realize hdd is slower then SSD but not THIS slow. It takes roughly 4 minutes to fully load windows and stabilize.
 

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heheh well, that might make a big diff huh?
It opened another window, ran through some testing closed that screen and viola` issue resolved :D
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Thread Author #22
idk, does the sysinfo file I gave originally tell you? If not tell me how to tell you.
 

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I once met the same problem. The answer I got from the "computer shop on the corner" was the Mobo was too old and missed some functions.
I got around it by simply disable / switching off defragging for that drive...
 

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They lied to you. This has nothing to do with the motherboard. It's windows being confused after cloning the system.
 

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I don't think so. I did not clone a drive, I removed the old failing HD drive, inserted a new SSD and started a fresh install from scratch.
That make me believe that some functionality from the old MoBo was missing.
 

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Thread Author #27
Shouldn't be the motherboard, I've never heard of that UNLESS the controller was acting up, but if that was the case it wouldn't operate and defraggler wouldn't show it properly like it does.
An image from 'Can't recognize HDD as HDD'. Windows 10 About screen showing version 1703 (OS Build 15063.674) and license info.
 

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#28
To upgrade use the first link on this page Link Removed click the update now button.
 

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very strange...
An image from 'Can't recognize HDD as HDD'. One image urges updating Windows 10, the other confirms the device is up to date.

An image from 'Can't recognize HDD as HDD'. One image urges updating Windows 10, the other confirms the device is up to date.

I'll give it a go
 

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OK, but remember an SSD must not be defragged that limits its live...
 

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Not strange you use the update page to force getting the latest fall update.
 

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Thread Author #32
i would've thought it was included in the normal update checks.
well, after doing the update and sadly finding alot of personal settings changed, removing the SSD, changing sata port order, updating all the drivers I can think of, It STILL says its an ssd :(
 

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If you open an admin command prompt and run winsat formal it should then rebort as a hdd after a reboot. If not another thing to try is setting the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically also has been known to fix this issue.
 

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says winsat formal can't be found
An image from 'Can't recognize HDD as HDD'. Command Prompt shows an error that 'winstat' is not a recognized command.

i'll give optimized a try.
 

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heheh well, that might make a big diff huh?
It opened another window, ran through some testing closed that screen and viola` issue resolved :D
 

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It forces windows as part of it's testing to re-evaluate connected devices. Pleased it's fixed. Knew we'd get there in the end.
 

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Thread Author #38
I appreciate the diligence, i was not looking forward to reinstalling windows
 

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