1. As the best free disk partition software favored by over tens of millions of users, MiniTool Partition Wizard Free helps users to repartition hard drive, format partition, check file system, align SSD partition, measure SSD performance, convert FAT to NTFS, etc. Aiming to become the most powerful free partition manager in the long term, it keeps offering ever-increasing new features like Disk Benchmark.
2. If you partition with the system built-in tool in Win 7 or later versions, the partition after being formatted will be 4K aligned (2048 sectors) by default. So, users don't need to do any setup. If you still use XP system, then you will depend on third party tool to achieve 4K alignment.
3. Apr 01, 2020 Free Edition. 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).

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Fortunately, MiniTool Solution Ltd., a professional development company based in Canada, released a piece of professional, simple and free partition magic – MiniTool Partition Wizard, and this tool can help to easily and quickly move Windows10 to a new drive or SSD without damaging original data.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a partition management program for hard disk drives developed by MiniTool Solution.^[1][2][3]

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1. ^Wilson, Jeffrey L. (22 January 2015). 'MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro Edition 9 Review'. PC Magazine.
2. ^Jacobi, Jon L. (8 July 2014). 'MiniTool Partition Wizard 8 review: A potent free partitioning toolkit'. PCWorld.
3. ^Biersdorfer, J. D. (9 February 2018). 'When Windows Is 100 Percent Stalled'. The New York Times.

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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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.