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    misaligned SSD- How do I fix??

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Heddok, Jul 25, 2011.

  1. Heddok

    Heddok Notebook Guru

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    I did something stupid late at night and really tired. I cloned a misaligned HDD and of course now have a misaligned SSD.

    The SSD is a Kingston V+100 64 Gb in my Dell D630 with Vista 32. The laptop is a mission critical navigation computer for our boat.

    Can someone point me to a easy to use guide for realigning it. I'm no partition genius that's for sure, any idiot proof help appreciated
     
    Heddok, Jul 25, 2011
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  2. SHoTTa35

    SHoTTa35 Notebook Consultant

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    I don't think you can align without killing the data. Someone correct me if i'm wrong. Cloning from a HDD to a SSD is always a no no anyways (correct me there too :D)
     
    SHoTTa35, Jul 27, 2011
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  3. 3Fees

    3Fees Notebook Deity

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    Paragon partition alignment tool .

    "Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0
    Boost performance of disk subsystems
    up to 3 times!
    Misalignment of logical partition sectors and actual physical sectors leads to redundant read/write operations. Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0 will help you align partitions on physical and virtual disks according to internal device's geometry without affecting the on-disk data."



    Paragon Paragon Alignment Tool - Overview

    Intel 160Gb SSD has a lot of misaligned...: Intel Communities

    There may be a free version somewhere.

    Cheers
    3Fees :)
     
    3Fees, Jul 27, 2011
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  4. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    JOSEA, Jul 27, 2011
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  5. Heddok

    Heddok Notebook Guru

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    This was one of those times where impatience trumped common sense. I cloned it with Acronis TI 2011. Checked the alignment and sure enough it was off.

    I spent the money and used Paragon's Partition Alignment Tool. Now this is one nice peice of software. Set it up and ran it and 30 minutes later had a perfectly aligned SSD. No date loss whatsoever. Absolutely painless.

    Misaligned

    [​IMG]

    Aligned with Paragon Partition Alignment Tool

    [​IMG]
     
    Heddok, Jul 27, 2011
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    Heddok Notebook Guru

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    Heddok, Jul 27, 2011
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    wow, less than 3% improvement in an artificial benchmark.......
     
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    His writes improved WAY more than 3%. More like 80%. But little difference in the Reads, yes.
     
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    I don't know why people keep using the Acronis Clone tool for this. Just make an Acronis image, it aligns fine on the SSD every time.
     
    deekeasy, Jul 27, 2011
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    talin Notebook Prophet

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    I've used gparted to align partitions, it works great. Going from memory, it will tell you where it's partitioned, and you can then adjust it. What you do is a copy/move, and it moves the partition left or right to the new alignment. It even has a check box that says "align to MB".

    GParted -- About
     
    talin, Jul 27, 2011
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