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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i cant delete my temporary files from disk clean,i cant defragment all drive c, what is my problem
location: microsoft.com - date: August 11, 2012
When i defragment it says  some files cant be defragmented, it says it cant defragmate all of drive c, when i do a  disk clean it only cleans and takes off temporary internet files,empties recycle bin and compresses old files.It dosnt take off offline web pages 9kb, or temporary files 3,696kb,or web client/publisher temp files 32kb. It used to do this before but not now and my computer needs a disk clean and defragment all the time more often even when im doing something on my computer it goes really slugish and plays up and i have to close it down and clean disk and defragment it all too much but its just not doing the job.it has just started doing this, what can i do to fix the problem. Thank you Margaret Cox.
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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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Defragmenting virtual drive wthin virtual machine running on SSD?
location: winsecrets.com - date: October 9, 2015
I use VMWare (V12 Pro) to test OS's and other software. From time to time, when I close a guest OS, VMWare advises me to defragment my (virtual) drive. I am running VMWare on an SSD under Windows 10 Pro. Is defragmentation actually necessary? If the guest OS is Windows 10, surely it is trimming the virtual drive it is installed on in the same way that the host Windows 10 trims its drive? I cannot find any VMWare support pages or forum posts that address the issue of SSDs in this scenario. Any opinions/advice?
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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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