No matter what I've done it's remained stuck on a 512 Byte alignment. The last partition remains out of whack in terms of the 4K alignment.

(The first time I formatted the drive I told Win10 to use the default size which I understand should be 4K, but thought I'd give it a whirl specifically calling for 4K sectors.) Then I repeated step 4 above.Īlso, somewhere in between a couple of these steps, I tried re-cloning just the un-aligned partition to no avail. It said they were all aligned.Ĥ) I used Disk Copy wizard in MiniTool Partition Wizard to copy the HDD to the SSD and selected the option 'Force to align partitions to 1 MB'.ĥ) I deleted all volumes and reformatted the SSD, specifying 4K sectors be used. It said it was aligned, but based on the actual offset reported by msinfo32 and diskpart, it was not aligned.ģ) I used MiniTool Partition Wizard again to request alignment on ALL of the SSD partitions just for kicks. In that attempt, the first three partitions were aligned, the last was not.Ģ) I used the lastest version of MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to attempt alignment of the last partition. Here's a brief outline of the steps I've taken so far to get a fully aligned SSD.ġ) I used the latest version of Macrium Reflect Free to clone the current drive to the SSD. The fourth (the one currently not aligned) is her data partition. The third is the Windows 10 OS partition. The second is a 22.46 GB Recovery partition. The first is 244 MB-it's unnamed-Windows Disk Management simple has it labeled as 'Healthy OEM Partition'.

The first two are Dell carry-overs from the original 320 GB HDD that came with the machine. The WD 750 GB HDD currently in the machine has 4 partitions. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever dealt with similar situation. I have a 1 TB Crucial MX200 SSD I'm trying to get cloned for my wife's Dell laptop and have been unable to get a 4K alignment on all the partitions.

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