beised Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hello, My first post. I would like to ask you for help on set the correct numbers to alingn a gt 3 60GB. I've read a lot from here and other sites and cannot figure out the righ numbers to a good alingment. My plan is to create 2 mounting points "/" and "/boot" to be used with Linux, otehr mounts will be put on a normal Hd Any help is welcomed Thanks in advance. Eduardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Use Parted Magic to create the partitions (linux live boot CD). There should be an option called "align to sector" or something along those lines. I suggest 4096 byte allocations, so make sure your partitions are divisible by 4096 to ensure they fall within alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NazcaC2 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 That or Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beised Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 I'll try Parted Magic THANKS!!!!! Btw, I HAVE THOSE NUMBER FO MY SSD: 60GB; 255 heads; 63 sctors/track; 7297 cylinders; 1 cyl = 1065 x 512 = 8225280 Bytes; Sector size 512 Bytes i/o 512 That said is 4096 the better? Thanks again!! Eduardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beised Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 I've just used the Gparted in Parted Magic and did a aling by cylinder. Leaving a 2048 b to the alignment.But I'm not so sure that I've done the right thing so... a lot of question: 1) after that the disk shows 1.05 Gb as used? 2) At the end an unallocated space of 2,49MB? Help!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I'm not sure why it would show the disk being used if you just made the partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardd43 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Diskpart is already installed on your computer and easy to use if you ever need to do another realignment. Run diskpart.exe 1 list disk 2 select disk x with x being the number given for your ssd 3 clean (this destroys all partition/volume data on the disk) 4 create partition primary align=1024 5 active 6 format fs=ntfs quick 7 exit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beised Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Diskpart is already installed on your computer and easy to use if you ever need to do another realignment. Run diskpart.exe format fs=ntfs quick 7 exit Sorry, But I forget to say I'm Linux user. So, instead of ntfs--> ext4 --- diskpart-->Gparted. The question is: Gparted offered 2 ways to align - By cylinder or By Mb. I'm not sure about which one to use. Since for cyl the only allow me to begin at 2nd cyl. and for Mb they waste a lot of space before and after the partition. Regards, Eduardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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