Thursday, November 1, 2012

How to check partition alignment for a windows machine

Open a command line and enter the command
wmic partition get BlockSize, StartingOffset, Name, Index
If StartingOffset is 1048576 then you have an aligned partition. If you see a value like 32256 then you have an alignment problem.

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