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Old June 7, 2010, 07:33 AM
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well i have not tried it yet but will some time this week. looks handy Paragon Alignment Tool - Overview

and it's free until June 30th
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Old June 7, 2010, 07:36 AM
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Do you have a link to the "free" part???? ;)
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Old June 7, 2010, 07:40 AM
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White Paper: Partition Alignment Dramatically Increases System Performance

just fill it out and they email you the link right away for me took 30 seconds.

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Old June 7, 2010, 02:18 PM
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ok here are my results on single disk it works fine but it tried to brick my falcons when dealing with them in raid i had to flash to get them back working so be careful on raid setups but the rest seems ok so far.
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Old June 8, 2010, 01:17 PM
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Heh. Registered, downloaded the software, rebooted, did a CDM bench, did an Acronis backup, installed the software and then I was told that my disk was already aligned properly and no further action required. :P
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Old June 8, 2010, 03:56 PM
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yup it works and is non destructive

fixed a funky win 7 64bit os partition. Didnt mess with my data. Took 5 + 25 minutes (did both partitions...but it can only do one at a time). Fast simple easy.

Interestingly enough it uses a 4096 offset instead of the more typical 2048. But there's nothing wrong with that ;)
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Old June 25, 2010, 12:15 PM
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Just noticed this but haven't tried it yet.

Thought this could be useful for some of you. Enjoy until June 30th.

White Paper: Partition Alignment Dramatically Increases System Performance

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Old June 25, 2010, 12:18 PM
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Oops, didn't notice it before. Oh well, a reminder for everybody.
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Old June 25, 2010, 04:15 PM
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So say I took a fresh (raid 0) volume and installed win7 on it without messing with any partitions, would this tool be of any use or would it just say that the partitions are already aligned (like it did to chris)?
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