[Fixed] Hard Drive Not Showing Up in Optimize Drives

Help! The drive not showing up 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.

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".

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

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.

│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".

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

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.

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

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

Step 3. To defrag the hard drive regularly, please 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.

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

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

│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".

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

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

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.