New hard drive uses the Diskgenius partition tool 4K Alignment

What is "4K alignment" and in fact "4K alignment" is associated with a partitioning technique called advanced formatting. "Advanced Format" is the international hard disk equipment and materials Association for the new data structure format adopted by the name. This is mainly due to the current expansion of hard disk capacity, so that the previously defined 512 bytes per sector is no longer reasonable, so that each sector 512 bytes to 4,096 bytes per sector, which is now often said "4K sector."

New hard disk Partitions snap to 4K methods:

A hard disk, how to partition to 4K? There are many ways to do this, but first make sure that your hard drive supports advanced formatting (Advanced format). In general, 2011 years after the production of hard drives, are supported by advanced format, and to determine whether support, you can use the Paragon alignment software.

After installing Paragon alignment, run, the following figure, you can see the left side is your hard drive, and the right side, is the description, if the green display is already aligned 4 K, and the display of yellow, you can align 4 K, but not aligned, and pink, is not supported advanced formatting, It's no use to snap to 4K.

During the 1.WIN7/WIN8 installation, the Win7/win8 formatting tool is used to format the partition so that it is aligned directly to the 4K.

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2. The use of tools to format, this article is about how to use the software Diskgenius, the new hard drive 4K alignment zoning, especially suitable for the use of XP system, or do not like the Win7 partition mode of users, the specific methods are as follows:

First of all, the hard disk to connect, if only this one hard drive, you can use the PE system to enter, if it is from the disk mode, please download Diskgenius, if it is a PE system, then the general self with Diskgenius.

Run Diskgenius, as shown in the following figure, on the left, select a new hard drive, you can see that the top of the show is a free gray bar, right click on this gray bar, choose to create a new partition

There are two types of partition type, if it is the partition of the system, you must select the primary disk partition, the partition size to choose the size you want, the emphasis is on Zishing "to the number of the following sectors integer times", then in the following number of sectors select 4096, and then determine

Can repeat the above operation, divided into multiple partitions, such as I split 2 areas, has been divided, the following is clicked on the left corner of the save changes, in the pop-up asked whether the format of the window, the choice is, you can partition completed, and complete the 4K alignment