defrag hybrid drive

Defrag hybrid drive?
location: winsecrets.com - date: May 17, 2013
My new machine has a hybrid drive: 500 gig platter with 32-gig solid state. It puts frequently-used files, such as those used at startup on the solid state part. (It boots up very quickly!) Do I need to defrag it? Will I harm it if I try to defrag it? Specifically, Belarc Advisor says my hard drive is this: ST500LX003-1AC15G [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n W200SM7H, rev DEM4, SMART Status: Healthy
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How to defrag a solid state hybrid drive, and is it safe?
location: 8forums.com - date: February 1, 2013
I just bought a Seagate ST750LX003 Momentus XT 750 GB as the new primary drive for my gaming laptop, and I'm wondering how to defrag them, and whether it is safe. I wanted the best of both worlds (space and speed) so I went for the middle ground. What is the difference between a regular HDD, SSHD, and a SSD? Do I just let Windows perform its' normal defrag routine as I normally would, or do I need to download some kind of proprietary software from Seagate that will do it? I like to use 3rd party software (UltimateDefrag) for my defrag operations, is all. And how much can I fill it up before it starts to slow down? I ask because I've heard that you cant fill an SSD up past around 50 to 60% or so before it slowly starts to degrade, s
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Windows 8 recovery disk, can I reinstall windows on new hybrid drive?
location: 7forums.com - date: January 15, 2013
Hi I recently purchased a new Alienware m14x r2 which came with windows 8 single language, English pre installed. However I want to replace the hdd with a newer hybrid drive, can I create a recovery disk and reinstall the os on the new hdd? I have created 5 recovery DVDs. Please help
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Cannot Defrag C drive - need 15% free space. What else can I delete or remove?
location: microsoft.com - date: November 2, 2010
I cannot defragment my hard drive because I need 15% free space and only have 12%.  This is a Dell Dimension 2300, about 10 years old.  I have run the Disk Cleanup and deleted everything I can think of, and moved large files to an external hard drive. When I go to Add/Remove programs I see things that are taking up a lot of space, but I'm not sure what I can delete.  Can I remove older Service Pack updates or do they all have to stay?  What else can I do? HELP!
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Defrag (C) Drive
location: winsecrets.com - date: April 25, 2011
I have a laptop that is running slow and tried to Defrag and got "defragmentation of (C) has been aborted due to inconsistencies that were detected in File System. Please run CHKDISK or SCANDISK to repair. have not been able to run either of these programs. what else can I do? system is XP 3
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Pre-installed Windows XP Home Edition w/SP3 will neither analyze or defrag C drive, external dirve or flash drive.
location: microsoft.com - date: October 31, 2012
Pre-installed Windows XP Home Edition w/SP3 will neither analyze or defrag C drive, external dirve or flash drive. This feature worked ok for years; not now. When I click on the Analyze or Defrag Buttons no repsonse. Any ideas?   Thank you. Chuck
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How do I make a clone image of a hybrid drive?
location: winsecrets.com - date: November 30, 2012
I purchased an HP laptop, Windows 7, 64 bit which has a hybrid hard drive. I've tried all the common free cloning programs, Macrium Reflect, Paragon, Easeus, but none support hybrid drive that I can find. Before shelling out $$ for non-free cloning programs that may not work, does anyone know of a cloning program that will definitely work to clone the hybrid drives? Doug
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Replaced hybrid drive
location: winsecrets.com - date: August 17, 2015
I recently replaced a 5400 rpm hybrid drive with a 7200 rpm mechanical drive on a Toshiba ultrabook for a friend. I cloned the first drive to the new one. What is throwing me is that disk management, explorer, crystaldiskinfo, BIOS....they all claim there is a second disk still on the pc, not a drive but a disk. In addition the boot up time is slower than I expected with a 7200 rpm drive. What is windows seeing? Do I need to make any changes? Thanks for your help.
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Does Formatting a drive replaces the need to defrag it?
location: 7forums.com - date: February 5, 2012
I've been wanting to reinstall Windows on a formatted drive for a time now. Recently a problem came up which the solution for is to defrag my drive. Will formatting the drive remove the need to defrag it afterwards? I mean, a bunch of nothing is as orderly as it can be...
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Defrag made my hard drive actually lose space?
location: 7forums.com - date: October 21, 2009
Did I miss something? I always thought defrags made more space on your computer by organizing files and making programs run faster But when I did a defrag, using Defraggler I went from 83 gigs free space to 79 gigs free space I even restarted, and nothing changed I think that's kinda weird . Or maybe I don't know something about defragging, and its suppose to do that I hope someone can explain, thank you
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