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    Hard Drive Alignment

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dpilot83, Dec 10, 2010.

  1. dpilot83

    dpilot83 Notebook Consultant

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    I just bought a new hard drive for my laptop. It's a 500 GB Western Digital Black drive. As far as I can tell, this drive does not require the new alignment that some of the newer drives require. I am planning on triple booting Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Pro and Ubuntu 10.10. I am partitioning my drive with the Ubuntu Live CD. The Ubuntu Live CD wants to create partitions that are aligned to MiB by default instead of by cylinder. For the Windows XP partition I changed that to cylinder and then for all the other partitions I allowed it to use the default MiB setting. Am I going to experience problems doing it this way? I would like to be able to access data that Windows 7 saved with Windows XP. Any help would be appreciated.
     
    dpilot83, Dec 10, 2010
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    You shouldn't have any issue with accessing data back and forth between W7 and XP since the filesystem will be NTFS anyway.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jan 9, 2011
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