Partition alignment

• Roust_m

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  July 18, 2007 at 6:03 pm

  #117948

  Hi,

  One of the articles I found, advises aligning a partition using DISKPART for performance reasons. 

  It is highly recommended that all partitions are configured by using the DISKPAR (Windows 2000) or DISKPART (Windows 2003) commands. When using DISKPAR, adjust the alignment by 512 bytes, and when using DISKPART, the disk should be aligned to 64. The reason for this is due to the original master boot record design of WinTel based systems. The master boot record for all drives is 63 blocks (1 block = 512 bytes).

  However, neither the article, not the command tell about how to check it it was done on an existing server.  Can you guys help?

  Thanks.

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  July 20, 2007 at 12:49 am

  #721015

  Just found this out:

  C:\diskpart

   

  DISKPART> select disk 0

   

   

  DISKPART> list part