Disk Alignment

To do a disk alignment you can follow the steps below:

• Check which disk you want to allign
• Using diskmanager is the fastest option
• “My Computer” – “Manage” – “Disk Management”

• For example this is Disk 1
• Go to “Start – run – CMD”
• Type “Diskpart”
• Type “List disk” to see the disks and sizes when “Size” is the same like the disk you saw in Diskmanager you are now ready to select it.
• Type “Select Disk 1”
• Disk 1 is now the selected disk
• Now create the partition with the good allignment
• Type “Create partition primary align=1024”
• After this you will get a success message that the partition is created with the correct allignment.

For more explanation about this see:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814(SQL.100).aspx