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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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