[Fixed] Hard Drive Not Showing Up in Optimize Drives

This article will show you how to deal with hard drive not showing up in optimize drives problem, three methods will be shared. Choose the suitable one based on your case.

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By Tina / Updated on July 10, 2024

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Help! The drive not showing up in optimize drives

 

" My computer is very slow when loading programs, so I tried to use Defragment and Optimize Drives to defrag my hard drive. However, the drive not showing up in optimize drives, why? Is there any solution here? Looking forward to your help."

Drive Not Showing in Optimize Drives

Why need to defrag the PC disk?

As we all know, no matter how well-configured a computer is, it will slow down after a period of use. But maybe what you don't know is file fragmentation is one of the incentives.

In the beginning, the data on the hard drive is arranged in order. But when some programs are deleted and installed, some file fragments will inevitably appear on the computer. Since file fragments are scattered around, the disk will waste a lot of time searching for them when reading data, then your PC will be slow all of sudden.

In order to optimize their PC, many users try to defrag files with Defragment and Optimize Drives, but they meet the problem of hard drive not showing up in optimize drives. So in the following content, we will share 3 methods to solve it.

Disk Defragmented

How to fix hard drive not showing up in optimize drives

When the optimize drives are not available, you can take the following measures.

Solution 1. Use the chkdsk /f command of CMD

If you find that the target disk is not displayed in optimize drives, there may be an error with your hard disk. Thus, you can use the Command Prompt to check disk.

CHKDSK is a command-line tool, specially used to check the hard disk file system and repair a series of hard disk errors in the Windows system. You can also use it to check for bad sectors, fix blue screens, etc. Please follow the steps below.

Tip: If the target drive is in use, you will not be able to successfully check and repair it, so please make sure you have turned off the target drive.

Step 1. Press "Windows + R" simultaneously, then type "cmd" and press "Enter".

Open Run

Step 2. Type "chkdsk /?" to know the details in advance.

CHKDSK Command

Step 3. Enter "chkdsk X:" (X refer to the drive you want to check.) to check the integrity of the target drive; enter "chkdsk g: /f", you can find out and repair any errors in the target drive. Here we take G drive as an example.

CHDKSK Disk Error

Solution 2. Try the command line version of defrag

After checking and repairing the target partition, if you still cannot find the target drive in defrag drives, you can use the command line version of defrag. The detailed steps are as follows:

Step 1. Press "Windows+R", enter "cmd" in the Run program and press "Enter".

Open Run

Step 2. If the C drive not showing in defrag, enter the "defrag c: /A“ command in the CMD window and press "Enter".

CMD Defrag Disk

A full-featured disk managing software

How to fix hard drive not showing up in optimize drives? The above two methods seem to work fine, but it is a bit difficult for people who are not familiar with PC. Thus, you may need AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, an easier third-party software.

In a clear interface, it helps you easily defrag drive (including an external device) with a few steps. You can make a defragmentation plan, finely setting the specific time and degree of the fragmentation task. Don’t have to worry about making mistakes, because you can preview the result.

Besides, you can use some advanced features to manage your PC drive better, such as allocating free space, migrating OS to SSD, moving application from one partition to another, converting dynamic disk to basic, etc.

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Step 1. Download and run AOMEI Professional, right-click the disk, then select the "Disk Defrag" option.

Disk Defragment

Step 2. Select the target drive and click "Analyze".

Analyze

Step 3. To defrag the hard drive regularly, please click "Schedule".

Click Schedule

Step 4. Select the target drive, then set the time to defrag it, then click "OK" to save all settings. Click "Conditions", then you can set the degree of the fragmentation.

Schedule Defrag Date Setting

Step 5. There're other options to make a detailed schedule, when you set all, click "OK" to the next step.

Degree of Fragmentation

Step 6. Click "Defrag" to defrag your target drive.

Defrag

Follow up: Optimize SSD by 4K alignment

Due to the difference between SSD and HDD, you cannot directly use "Disk Defrag" to SSD when it is slow, because defrag SSD may shorten its lifespan.

Here, AOMEI specially prepared the "Partition Alignment" function for you to optimize the SSD. In a few simple steps, it can align 4K sectors on SSD to make it run faster.

Step 1. On the main interface, right-click a partition from the SSD, then select "Advanced" and "Partition Alignment".

Partition Alignment

Step 2. In the "Partition Alignment" window, select "4096 Sectors".

Partition 4K Alignment

Step 3. Click "OK" and "Apply" to start aligning the target partition. Repeat the above operations to align the remaining partitions.

Apply Alignment

Tidy up

Look, in this article, we have shared three solutions to hard drive not showing up in optimize drives. With the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant, you can easily run disk defrag in HDD; for SSD, you can also align its partitions to improve its performance.

By the way, we also prepared the Server Edition for Windows Server users to defragment hard drive.

Tina
Tina · Staff Editor
Tina is an English editor of AOMEI Technology. She has a positive attitude and full of energy. On her work, she always keeps thinking to figure out the solutions for users' problems, and writes the answers so that can help someone. In her daily life, she likes to sing, watch TV and sleep. She always being grateful and happy to all the things happened and all the people encountered.