SSD alignment - do i am done it right?


  1. boxcat
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    SSD alignment - do i am done it right?


    Hello, recently i bought 256Gb sandisk ssd, i wanted to clone my previous hard drive partition with Windows 7 in it, because i dont want to do any new installations of windows. there is just too much custom settings in system.

    Anyway, by reading tutorials over the net and using EaseUS partition master 9.3.0 paid version, i cloned my C partition to my new ssd witch i connected to USB>SATA cable for temporarly use.

    Anyway, before copying, i formated SSD with windows 7 and it gave 1024offset. seems all right.
    However, after started cloning in safe mode (it took 5 hours), EaseUS reformatted my SSD again and gave wrong offset, starting sector was 63.

    After that i googled some method, i corrected alignment with "Minitool partition wizard home edition" free application.

    Now here is the results:
    http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/3158/vrqy.jpg

    is it all looking good now?
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  3. AddRAM
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    In elevated command prompt type..... Diskpart

    hit enter

    then type...... list disk

    hit enter

    then type.......select disk x

    hit enter

    replace x with the disk you want to check

    then type........list partition

    hit enter

    it will show you the offset and it has to be divisible by 4
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  4. boxcat
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    yes it says offset 1024. so i guess im good to go?, i just tough should be some more detailed parameters to check to be sure its all for best performance before replacing hdd with ssd.
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  6. whs
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    Nah, if the offset is 1024, you are OK.

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