SSD alignment help

[DeadByDawn]

I had migrated my windows 7 x64 os to an SSD last year using acronis.
I just notice after some reading that my partiion for my OS isnt aligned with the correct offset.

I want to re-align it without reinstalling. There are a lot of tools to migrate an OS from mechanical HDD to an SSD, but i actually want to just realign it without a reinstall.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Forceman]

Paragon has a tool (Paragon Alignment Tool) that can do it, but it costs $20 I think. It can also be done (more messily) with Gparted - you'd have to google up the instructions. I tried to do it but I had trouble booting the new drive, so in the end I just made a system image with the Win 7 built-in backup tool and then re-installed the image on the SSD after a secure erase). Problem solved.

 

[DeadByDawn]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I went out and got the paragon alignment tool.
I ran it once and it didnt seem to work.
The partition size was still unchanged after it rebooted.

I ran it a 2nd time and it says it worked and it shows my drive in "green" good status.

However my offset is now:
2097152
I am not sure if this is good or bad.

I am googling around to see if i can determine more info.
Any insight into this size? Everywhere it seems that 1048576 is the magic number.

BTW: The drive i am working with is an intel 80gb SSD INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC .
Do you think this makes a difference?
Thanks

 

[mwroobel]

The offset of your partition can be almost any number actually, in windows for example there is often a partition automatically added to a formatted disk which can vary in size. The main thing you need to see is that the number you get is divisible by 4 (or 4096, which is divisible by 4), that will (in almost every situation you will face) show the partition is aligned.