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So i have an ASUS ROG G20 system that I installed my own SSD in. But it shows up in the defrag window as an HDD.

I tried a lot of stuff like making sure my sata ports are set to AHCI in the bios, and running winsat disk in a cmd window as administrator.

None of this works and my SSD continues to show as an HDD.

I read somewhere that perhaps it's plugged into the wrong kind of SATA port or there was perhaps an issue when I installed windows 10 onto my system.
 
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The built-in defragmenter in Windows 8 and later actually defrags a SSD once a month automatically if System Restore is enabled as it speeds up volsnap, in addition to the usual weekly TRIM (it doesn't let you manually defrag though, only TRIM).

All of the old SSDs I have that don't support TRIM show up as HDD, except the X25-M G1. And the TRIM capable 850 Evo shows up as a HDD on the TRIM-but-not-AHCI capable ICH7, so there could be many reasons for this.
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The built-in defragmenter in Windows 8 and later actually defrags a SSD once a month automatically if System Restore is enabled as it speeds up volsnap, in addition to the usual weekly TRIM (it doesn't let you manually defrag though, only TRIM).

All of the old SSDs I have that don't support TRIM show up as HDD, except the X25-M G1. And the TRIM capable 850 Evo shows up as a HDD on the TRIM-but-not-AHCI capable ICH7, so there could be many reasons for this.
 
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What specific SSD is this?
In the Optimize Drives window, under Media Type, what does it say exactly? A picture would help.
 
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