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WD (not) aligning: consequences?

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I installed and formatted a new WD disk (Caviar green) WD10EARS (1T) in my PC. OS is windows XP. The drive is a secondary drive (no OS), and I already copied ~500 GB onto it.
Only then did I learn that I should have run the align program.

What are the consequences of not running that program? Is my data safe? And can I run align with a non-empty drive?

Thanks!
 
WD also has a tool on their website to adjust the alignment. You have to have the drive registered (it is a limited download), but it will fix the alignment without re-formating.
 
I haven't used WD align, but gparted, once, and it took forever for a drive with data. I had backups. A HDD is never "safe".
 
Registered HD, downloaded WD align.
Ran for about 4 hours, finished, everything seems OK.
Thanks!
 
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