Well to this point, I have not tried to recreate anything, and I honestly
cannot be sure that the drive is actually showing up in disk management. It
does have 4 drives there, and I only have 3 connected to my computer at this
time, including the internal drive, but I cannot identify which one is the
drive inquestion since the names are not what I am used to seeing. Also,
there are 2 Western Digital drives appearing in Disk Management, and I only
have one W D connected to the computer at this time. If you go into the
Details tab of the disk properties, and choose the Manufacturer, I have
never seen this say anything but Standard Disk Drives, which I have never
heard of, but it seems unlikely that all disk drives are manufactured by the
same company. I usually do not trust this type of information which is given
by the Windows Operating System. The actual brand name of the drive is
Crucial, so I am going to find out from them how their drives should appear
in Disk Management, Device Manager, or Devices and Printers. These are the
three places where I can find my drives listed outside of This PC.
Mike
mike....@comcast.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Hicks Steven (CORNWALL IT SERVICES)
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:40 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Defraging SSD's
Hi,
Tricky one, in disk management, if you remove the partition and then
re-create it, you should receive a wizard which will take you through
various steps, one is to assign a drive letter and another is to format the
drive, how have you got on with this?
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Boyd
Sent: 22 July 2015 15:23
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Defraging SSD's
I would like to share my experience with my Crucial 120 GB SSD. I had
created a Windows Recovery partition on this SSD, which reduced the
available space from its normal size of around 105 GB down to ony 32.1 GB.
As I did not use the drive for anything at the time, I simply stored it away
incase I ever needed it. Lately however, I did have nother need for the
drive, so I decided to remove the recovery partition from it to give me back
the full amount of available space on it, and I chose to do this by
reformatting the drive. So, I did this, and when finished, the drive was
cleaned of its contents, of course, but the available space did not return
to the 105 GB that I expected, it stayed at 32.1 GB. I then consulted some
articles on how to recover the lost space on the drive, and concluded that
the partition had not been removed from the drive, and I performed the
necessary action to remove it through disk management. Well, low and behold,
the entire drive disappeared from my
drive list in This PC, and nothing I have tried has been able to make the
computer recognize the drive again. When I plug the drive into the computer,
I get the normal connection sounds an such, but the drive is not appearing
in the drive list. So, it seems to me, that the drive is hidden in some
fashion, and I am not surehow to go about getting it to appear again. From
what further reading I have done on the subject, I believe it may be
something in how the computer changed the binary code on the drive, since
any given empty drive should be written with all zeroes, mine was apparently
over written in some fashion with all ones or a combination of both. In any
case, I am now at a loss as how to recover the drive if possible. Any help
or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Mike
mike....@comcast.net
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