Is the hard drive of your PC giving you a tough time with painfully longer load times? Hard drives also need optimization especially the conventional SATA drives that fragment data over the course of time. Fragmentation is basically when the drives use the vacant storage slots to store data but this method can result in cluttering and adversely affect the performance of your drive. But here are some steps that you can follow to check the health and optimize your hard drives on Windows 10.
How to Defragment and Optimize Hard Drive







Using Check Disk (CHKDSK)





Using WMIC




These are some simple steps to check the health and optimize your hard drive on Windows 10. If all of these tests and optimizing methods still do not reflect any issues with the hard drive then your hard drive might not be the culprit behind the lag and slow performance after all.