Thanks dude! This time around I did everything while booted into Windows. But first as you suggested I ran chkdsk on the SSD (drive f in this...
Thank you for the response. Sorry if my initial post was terse, I am just frustrated by what I assumed would be relatively painless. No, I did...
Every time I was running this it would 'complete' but still show the drive as 'not aligned'. So I tried to run checkdisk then rerun the alignment...
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