how do i know if my partition are right alignment?

Hi

i have paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional & acronis disk director 11

in the acronis forum i found thanks to Doug
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/19322

i did not undestand well maybe someone could help me
if i have unsterstood
xp and earlier has 31.5kb at the beginning of the disk and , and between the partitions?
vista and 7 have 1mb at the beginning of the disk and 1mb between the partitions?
do i understand right?

well how can i know if they are right alignment?
paragon recovery cd doesn't show me , don't know why

acronis disk director 11 (i guess 10 can't) ,

let me see the first 1mb but not and all boundaries between partitions are multiples of 1024 kB

in short i have w7 with 5 partition , how can i check?

thanks
sorry for my poor english

cheers

 

what i did
-> diskpart
-> list disk
-> select disk 0
xp
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 60 GB 31 KB
Partition 0 Extended 871 GB 60 GB
Partition 2 Logical 119 GB 60 GB
Partition 3 Logical 118 GB 179 GB
Partition 4 Logical 100 GB 298 GB
Partition 5 Logical 499 GB 398 GB
Partition 6 Logical 33 GB 897 GB

-> select disk 1
-> list partition
w7
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 100 GB 1024 KB
Partition 0 Extended 831 GB 100 GB
Partition 2 Logical 58 GB 100 GB
Partition 3 Logical 174 GB 158 GB
Partition 4 Logical 598 GB 332 GB

but does this info help?

 

Only need to bother for SSD but it good practice to get into the habit for current drives and future standards. Setting it to 1024K ensures it correctly aligned for all brands of SSD.

Goto Start Menu then Run and type cmd then press OK. In black cmd box type: wmic partition get Name,StartingOffset,Size

this command also works and also shows the page size. fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:

also

Start Run msinfo32. in msinfo goto components, storage,disks,partition starting offset

If you see 1024K and 4K(4096 bytes) in your settings then your correctly aligned.

So a custom offset size 1024K(1048576 bytes) and custom file allocation size of 4096 bytes is correctly aligned with a typical SSD, which has a 512 block and erase block size and a 4K page size.

 

with

there is not such information

give me
bytes for sector 512
byte for cluster 4096
byte for for filerecord segment 1024

i have byte/sector 512
sector/track 63

are they correctly aligned ?

and how can i check for partitions integrety ? i mean a program like disk director or paragon boot cd should notice ,shoun't?

thanks

 

the number in yellow is the exact bytes. divide the number you see on your system by 4096(File Allocation Unit Size). If it equal a whole number, it aligned.

eg. xp is 63 x 512 = 32,256 / 4096 = 7.875 not a whole number not aligned. a offset of just 64k would be 65,536 bytes / 4096 = 16 so aligned. MS should of used 64 to begin with.

eg. win7 is 1024K x 512 = 52,4288 / 4096 = 128 whole number aligned.

Try this diskalign script. http://filebeam.com/08b7a81292c7fa00202c19bf35e6e705

wmic doesn't run on all versions of windows.

fsutil lists file allocation unit size as bytes per cluster, so you have that part set correct, is the Windows NTFS default.

chkdsk from a cmd box is good enough. In recovery programs is usually feature to check partition. eg. free EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition, use Check Partition feature which is just chkdsk. There is a self healing of NTFS already turned on by default. It fixes corruptions without having to run chkdsk. fsutil repair query c:

try TestDisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

thank
may i ask a question
paragon and disk director doesn't allarm me , for example when i run the recovery cd

but Partition Table doctor 3.5 allarm me told me
partition 6 hard disk 1 total sector is 71186432 the right sectors 71200017
partition 1 hard disk 2 total sector is 209725433 the right sectors 209728575
partition 3 hard disk 3 total sector is 365751785 the right sectors 365751792

fix?
i said no
should i fix?