<span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';font-size:15px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/">http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/</a></span><br dir="ltr"><br>On Monday, December 31, 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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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.<br>
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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:<br>
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WARNING: The partition is misaligned by xxxx bytes. This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested.<br>
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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.<br>
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<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-01.png" target="_blank">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/<u></u>9879631/123112-Screenshot-01.<u></u>png</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-05.png" target="_blank">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/<u></u>9879631/123112-Screenshot-05.<u></u>png</a><br>
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<span></span><br>
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br><br>"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
<br>Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>CH:D 59<br>