Comments on: Windows 2008 disk alignment

By: Windows 2003 align OS disk | Remko Weijnen's Blog (Remko's Blog)

Windows 2003 align OS disk | Remko Weijnen's Blog (Remko's Blog) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:11:55 +0000

[...] On Windows 2008, and higher, all partitions are automatically aligned to a 1 MB boundary. [...]

By: VMFS and VM guest disk alignment, puts fingers in his ears, la la la « RunningVM's

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:46:06 +0000

[...] Checking the guest disk alignment is opening a can of worms, nine times out of ten you will find misaligned disks for Windows 2003 or earlier versions. Windows Server 2008 and later should align disks correctly automatically. http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/05/windows-2008-disk-alignment/ [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:06:23 +0000

Very informative article. I was unaware that diskpart rounded the output. Have you discovered any way to handle the alignment of the system partitions on VMs running OSes prior to Windows 2008? Any sort of template or preparation that can be done so that system partition is aligned?

By: Windows 2008 disk alignment « Frank Denneman

Windows 2008 disk alignment « Frank Denneman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:05:05 +0000

[...] Hi I have moved this blog to the new site frankdenneman.nl. The new home for this article is: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/05/windows-2008-disk-alignment/ Apologies for the inconvenience Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)How can I use [...]

By: Internet Banking

Internet Banking — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:28:10 +0000

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By: Frank Denneman

Frank Denneman — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:08:40 +0000

Tom,

I prefer to use the KISS method and stick to the defaults.
Let Windows decides what’s best.
The disk alignment is just a starting point, what’s more interesting is the allocation unit to use on the NTFS partition.
The allocation unit mostly depends on the requirements of the application who is using the partition. Consult the application documentation to find out the sweet spot.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:57:15 +0000

How does one decide what the alignment should be for Win2k8 VMs??
For most usages in smaller environments will the 1024 alignment be acceptable??
Thank you, Tom

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:02:27 +0000

Brilliant post. Have been revisiting Disk Alignment this week and this really helped.

Thank you very much, have linked you from my blog.

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:42:20 +0000

I am wondering WHERE i can get this 2008 diskdiag.exe? It is not installed by default, nor exist in support tools folder. Do You have it in Your system – how You installed it?