{"id":474,"date":"2012-10-05T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=474"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:19","slug":"microsoft-windows-2008-r2-partition-alignment-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 &#8211; Partition Alignment Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see if your partitions are aligned correctly, hit the Start menu and type in msinfo32. Enter Msinfo32 and go to Components &gt; Storage &gt; Disks. Look for your disk on the list and find the &#8220;Partition Starting Offset&#8221; item. If this number is divisible by 4096 (that is, if dividing it by 4096 equals a whole number and not a decimal), your partition is correctly aligned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So on my machine the &#8220;Partition Starting Offset&#8221; was 1,048,576 bytes, which divided by 4096 comes to 256 which is a whole number, therefore the partitions are aligned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see if your partitions are aligned correctly, hit the Start menu and type in msinfo32. Enter Msinfo32 and go to Components &gt; Storage &gt; Disks. Look for your disk on the list and find the &#8220;Partition Starting Offset&#8221; item. If this number is divisible by 4096 (that is, if dividing it by 4096 equals &#8230; <a title=\"Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 &#8211; Partition Alignment Check\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=474\" aria-label=\"Read more about Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 &#8211; Partition Alignment Check\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}