[ale] HELP - Partition Misaligned message after cloning disk

[James Sumners]

http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/

On Monday, December 31, 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> HELP.  I cloned my 500 GB hdd which was threatening failure for my laptop
> to a new 750 GB hdd using Acronis True Image.  I told it to leave the
> partition sizes unchanged, so the extra space at the end of the drive is
> unallocated.
>
> I can now boot both Windows 7 and Ubuntu and they work fine.  However,
> Disk Utility in Ubuntu is giving an error message on each partition that
> says:
>
> WARNING: The partition is misaligned by xxxx bytes.  This may result in
> very poor performance.  Repartitioning is suggested.
>
> The number xxxx varies by partition, and all partitions are showing the
> problem, except for the unallocated space.  The following screen shots show
> each error.
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**9879631/123112-Screenshot-01.**png<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-01.png>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**9879631/123112-Screenshot-02.**png<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-02.png>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**9879631/123112-Screenshot-03.**png<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-03.png>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**9879631/123112-Screenshot-04.**png<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-04.png>
>
> Windows 7 seems to run fine and is apparently not bothered, although there
> may be hidden effects I cannot see.  What are the implications of this?
>  How do I fix it?  Note that I don't want to erase any data in any of the
> partitions.  The disk is formatted as MBR.
>
> The following screen shot shows the structure of the drive in Disk Manager
> in Windows.  The 97 GB partition is the Linux partition and it is EXT4.
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**9879631/123112-Screenshot-05.**png<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-05.png>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>


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