Find your OS install location

It's important to know if your operating system (OS) is installed on a hard disk drive (HDD) or a solid state drive (SSD). This tutorial is split into two steps, we will firstly check which drive the OS is installed on and secondly find out if that drive is a HDD or SSD.

Finding which drive your OS is installed on

1. Click Start and type system protection and hit enter
2. A window will pop up, look at the list of drives and find the one which has (System) in the name
3. You now know which drive your OS is installed on, make a note of this

Finding whether that drive is HDD or SSD

1. Click Start and type run and hit enter
2. A window will pop up, in that window type dfrgui, hit enter
3. You will see a list of drives, and next to it you will see written Solid state drive or Hard disk drive.
4. Find the drive you made a note of before in this list and check if it is SSD or HDD