Incorrectly aligned hard disks cannot be used optimally. Paragon Alignment Tool aligns the partitions on your physical or virtual hard disk exactly to the structure of your hard disk without any risk to your data.

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The challenge

Already in the nineties the problem of misalignment of partitions appeared, which led to performance losses when using hard disks. Initially it was administrators who wanted to get the most out of their arrays, but today it also affects all home users who use the latest developments on the hard disk market: compact, super-fast SSDs (solid state drives) or hard disks with capacities of over 2 TeraByte. The increasing spread of virtualized systems has made the problem even worse.

 
When data is written to a hard disk, it is done - starting from a " starting point" on the disk - at a certain "clock", the sector size. The partitions on a hard disk also each start at a certain memory point. If this point is not in the same clock of the physical hard disk, it is called a misalignment of the partition.

New Features	Services
Supports Windows 8	Perform all operations under Windows 8.
Optimized Alignment Engine	The alignment process is now even faster.
Bootable WinPE rescue environment*	Align partitions without reinstalling the software
Further functions	Services
Flexible alignment options	You can now use an infinitely variable controller to set how the alignment is to be carried out - as quickly as possible and less reliably or more slowly and with maximum safety.**
Automatic continuation after interruption	This function ensures that a partition alignment that has been started is carried out completely, even if the process has been interrupted.
Alignment in only one step	Partition Alignment Tool is the only tool that correctly aligns partitions in a single operation!
Complete data security**	When aligning the partitions, the system and data remain safe **.
Up to 300% better performance	The performance difference between incorrectly and correctly aligned partitions can be up to 300%!
Protects your SSD	Optimally aligned partitions avoid redundant read and write processes and thus extend the life of an SSD.
Works even with very large hard disks	Also aligns partitions on hard disks with very high storage capacity (sector size 4096 bytes)

System requirements