I've just installed a new 40GB Intel SSD, looking into setting them up it's brought to my attention the issue of misaligned partitions. Using the correct procedures, I sucessfully have Windows 7 running on my SSD with 4096 per allocation unit and a 1024KB partition starting offset.
While checking this with diskpart, I thought I'd take a looking at my 1TB mechanical drive's partition arrangement. This was set up using Windows XP a while ago, and something's not quite right:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 29 GB 31 KB
Partition 0 Extended 872 GB 29 GB
Partition 3 Logical 872 GB 29 GB
Partition 2 Primary 29 GB 902 GB
The fact that my main partition is logical doesn't bother me, but the offsets look way way off. Short of re-partitioning and restoring my data, is there anyway I can fix this? In it's current state, is my configuration taking a performance hit?
Thanks,
Dawson
While checking this with diskpart, I thought I'd take a looking at my 1TB mechanical drive's partition arrangement. This was set up using Windows XP a while ago, and something's not quite right:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 29 GB 31 KB
Partition 0 Extended 872 GB 29 GB
Partition 3 Logical 872 GB 29 GB
Partition 2 Primary 29 GB 902 GB
The fact that my main partition is logical doesn't bother me, but the offsets look way way off. Short of re-partitioning and restoring my data, is there anyway I can fix this? In it's current state, is my configuration taking a performance hit?
Thanks,
Dawson
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