SSD Alignment

[shurzota]

Hi everyone,

[FONT=&quot]I have Intel X-25M 80 GB SSD. I want to install Windows 7 Pro x64, MS Office and other application on it.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Should I create partition primary align=1024 or Create partition primary size=100 align=1024?[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]

Thank you.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

I assume you are using diskpart????

I think the first one will create a single partition covering the entire drive.

I think the second one will create a small 100 mb partition that you could then make the system partition.

But you don't need that small system partition, so I would do the first command.

I don't think you even need the align part of the command.


Then:

select partition 1

active

format fs=ntfs quick

exit

 

[shurzota]

I checked my partition by diskpart:
[FONT=&quot]Partition ### Type Size Offset[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]--------------- ---------------- -------- -------[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Partition 2 Primary 74 GB[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]101 MB[/FONT][FONT=&quot] - is NOT divided by 4?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Should it be?[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]I'm going to make image of the SSD by ATIH 2010 and want to be sure that alignment is ok.
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[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello shurzota, welcome to Seven Forums!



Have a look at Step Two #4 of this tutorial at the link below.


SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

 

[theog]

Take a look at this Tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149969-ssd-install-transfer-operating-system.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70822-ssd-tweaks-optimizations-windows-7-a.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/113967-ssd-alignment.html