How to enable Readyboost that is disabled in error

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My laptop came pre-installed with Windows 8.1 on a 500GB 5400RPM HDD. It has 4GB memory.

Over the holidays someone gave me a 64GB m-SATA SSD, which I put into the laptop's m-SATA slot.

On the BIOS, the info shows that the SSD occupies the SATA 0 slot. I had to re-adjust the boot order to boot normally into my system disk, which is on the SATA 1 slot.

I wanted to use the m-SATA SSD as a Readyboost cache. When I carried out the steps to enable Readyboost on the SSD, it wouldn't let me. The error message is:

This device cannot be used for ReadyBoost.

ReadyBoost is not enabled because this computer is fast enough that ReadyBoost is unlikely to provide additional benefit.

There must be some mistake because the SSD is not the system disk. It only occupies SATA slot 0 (which I cannot change). The system disk is a typical HDD.

How do I go about enabling Readyboost on the SSD? Any tweaks or commands? I have tweaked the registry many times before so if need be I could do that.

[Note: Those who want to suggest other things like sell the SSD, leave it alone, or whatever, please just heckle some other thread.]

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Insert the flash drive or card, then right-click on it in This PC and select properties. Open the ReadyBoost tab.

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2014-01-02T08:25:55+00:00

Hi Anannya

Thanks for replying but your answer does not fit this scenario.

In my laptop, I have a normal HDD on SATA slot 1, which is my system disk. This HDD is a normal drive. It is not hybrid.

I have SSD on SATA slot 0. I am trying to activate Readyboost on the SSD, but I am blocked from doing so because of the error message.

TECH NOTE:

Readyboost cannot be activated on SSD if it is the primary disk, according to the technical note on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx

THIS LAPTOP:

This is different. The SSD is not the system disk. It only occupies SATA slot 0. Readyboost should not be blocked on this drive.

During the whole time, even now, the service Superfetch is set to "automatic", and the status is "running". I have done nothing to change or influence this.

So now, how can I tell the OS that it should go ahead with Readyboost on the SSD that is not a system disk?
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2014-01-02T04:49:13+00:00

Hi M Pollack,

If your computer has a hard disk that uses solid-state drive (SSD) technology, you might not see an option to speed up your computer with ReadyBoost when you plug in a USB flash drive or flash memory card. You may instead receive the message, "Readyboost is not enabled on this computer because the system disk is fast enough that ReadyBoost is unlikely to provide any additional benefit." This is because some SSD drives are so fast they're unlikely to benefit from ReadyBoost.

Note:

ReadyBoost uses the Superfetch service that should be enabled and set to "Running" and "Automatic".

It might be possible that the device which you are using to enable ReadyBoost does not support this feature or it is incompatle.

However, to check if the issue is with the ReadyBoost feature please try enabling ReadyBoost using a different flash drive.

Also, 4GB of ram means that ready boost won't show you any performance increase at all.

Ready boost is designed for systems with under 2GB RAM.

Hope it helps. Please get back with the issue status.
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