• Minitool Partition Wizard 4k Wallpaper
• Minitool Partition Wizard 4k Alignment
• Minitool Partition Wizard Free 11.5
• Minitool Partition Wizard 4k Blu-ray

Minitool Partition Wizard 4k Wallpaper

1. For average users to manage basic disks including disk check, hard drive repartition and file system conversion. Support Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 (all editions, 32/64 bit).
2. MiniTool Partition Wizard Overview. MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, designed by MT Solution Ltd, allows users to perform all the operations regarding disk and partition management, including resizing, creating, moving, deleting partition, and initializing, cleaning, converting disk.

MiniTool Partition Wizard software supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery. MiniTool partition wizard offers a variety of solutions for data recovery. The software can quickly find and recover lost data. The data-recovery feature just springs into action when you are struggling to recover your data. Also, you can now recover your lost and deleted files from damaged, formatted or inaccessible drives. MiniTool Partition Wizard (Pro / Server) - All-in-one professional disk manager software for Windows PCs and Windows Server optimizes hard disks and SSDs with a comprehensive set of operations. Moreover, in case of system boot failure, bootable CD/DVD/USB drives can be created. MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro.

About Align Partition

The Align Partition feature added in MiniTool Partition Wizard helps users align the specified partition in several simple steps.

Why Align Partition

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4K alignment is a quite important issue for hard disks which employ 4K sectors, including both Solid State Drive (SSD) and advanced formatted mechanical hard disk. And actually, it refers to the alignment between 4K physical sector and cluster.

A cluster is the smallest logical amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. One cluster can only hold content of one file no matter how small the file is.From Wikipedia

When we are creating partitions on hard disks which use 4K physical sector, the partition always does not start from the starting position of a physical sector, which means physical sector and cluster will be shifted.

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As a result, reading data saved in one cluster will access 2 physical sectors, thus increasing access time or slowing down read speed. Similarly, writing a file will operate 2 physical sectors at least, which definitely will increase writing times and waste disk space. Therefore, it is very necessary to perform the 4K alignment.

When Do We Need to Align Partition

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1. If users are creating partitions on SSD or advanced formatted HDD under old versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, etc., partition alignment is required since these operating systems do not have such a function.
2. After copying a partition to SSD or advanced formatted HDD, or after changing the location and size of a partition, users are suggested to align partitions, even if they are running Windows Vista or more advanced Windows operating systems in which partitions are aligned automatically when they are creating or formatting partition.

For specific steps, please see MiniTool Partition Wizard Tutorial below.

How to Align Partition

Step 1. Run MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its main interface.

Step 2. Select the partition which needs aligning, and then choose Align Partition from the left action panel or select Align from right-click menu.

Step 3. If it is misaligned, uses will see a pending operation on the left action pane. At this time, just click on Apply button to perform this operation.

But if the selected partition is already aligned, users will get the information below.

After that, partition alignment is completed via MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is so easy. However, to align multiple partitions on the same hard disk, please use Align All Partitions feature.