- Mar 3, 2009
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I think I may have done the most foolish thing.
I have a 1 TB hdd .It has only 1 partition which is 90% full. Off late I noticed as the the hard disk began to fill up its performance decreased gradually. The culprit seems to be poorly aligned partition as suggested by this post http://www.overclock.net/t/1226963/how-to-properly-re-align-your-ssd-hdd-partitions . So as instructed I ran mini partition tool magic to re align the drive and hit apply . I thought it would hardly take few mins . To my horror its proceeding very slowly.
I realized pretty late that there is hardly any space to move the 850 GB worth of data within the drive itself during the re align process. But partition magic never warned me about low space and proceeded to realign the drive.
I am committed to let the process complete for as long as it takes.
But have a committed the mistake of re-aligning a drive which is almost full and risk losing the data?
I have a 1 TB hdd .It has only 1 partition which is 90% full. Off late I noticed as the the hard disk began to fill up its performance decreased gradually. The culprit seems to be poorly aligned partition as suggested by this post http://www.overclock.net/t/1226963/how-to-properly-re-align-your-ssd-hdd-partitions . So as instructed I ran mini partition tool magic to re align the drive and hit apply . I thought it would hardly take few mins . To my horror its proceeding very slowly.
I realized pretty late that there is hardly any space to move the 850 GB worth of data within the drive itself during the re align process. But partition magic never warned me about low space and proceeded to realign the drive.
I am committed to let the process complete for as long as it takes.
But have a committed the mistake of re-aligning a drive which is almost full and risk losing the data?
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