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How do I find out on Android smartphones if II have a hard drive or SSD?

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Androids use dedicated flash memory for storage rather than a traditional hard drive like you'd find in a computer.

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This not shown in windows 7 ( Media Type).

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Just go into a file explorer and right click My Computer and click Manage. Then go to Disk Management and right click any disk and go to Properties.

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How do I know if my laptop has a SSD or not?

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Go into a file explorer and right click My Computer and click Manage. Then go to disk management and right click any disk and go to Properties.

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But what if you can go to defrag and optimize drives because the task scheduler service is not running?

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Go to the Start menu - type in Services, click Services, then restart the Task Scheduler service.

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