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Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:55 am
by TeraByte Support
You can also just enable the Limit Primaries options.

Also, you can use BIBM to align, just enable the 2048 alignment in settings, then ensure there is a gap after the last partition (typically will be as cylinder alignment has unused sectors at the end of the drive), if not, resize 1M smaller (you may have to tell it 2M smaller depending on where the alignment is at), then slide (leave existing values) and click okay , then do the same thing working backwards (towards top) if there any more partitions. If you care to align the end, resize after the slide to same size as well. The slide is the operation that will take the longest.

TeraByte Support(PP) wrote:
> It's best to convert to MBR before making those types of changes or align
> using BING/BIBM.

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:47 pm
by ohaya
Hi,

You all keep referring to using BING to align the partition. I may be missing something, but I don't see an option in BING to align a partition.

I'm running BING 1.87, which I think was the last one before BIBM.

I just did a couple of experiments.

Experiment 1:

That 1.5TB drive started with an ~1.5 TB partition that was aligned (via PAT).

I used BING to resize that partition down to ~1TB.

Then I used BING to create a new NTFS partition in the unallocated area, taking all of the free space.

I then booted into Windows 7 and ran PAT, just to check if the partitions were aligned. In WIndows 7 I formatted the new partition using defaults.

PAT showed the resized partition was aligned, but that the new partition was not aligned.

Experiment 2:

I booted into BING.

I used BING to delete the 2nd partition (so there was the 1st partition, ~1TB, aligned, and ~500GB free space).

I then booted into Windows 7. In WIndows 7 I used Disk Management to create a new Simple volume in the unallocated space, formatted the new partition using defaults.

Then, I ran PAT, and PAT showed both partitions as being aligned.


So, like I said, I don't see an option in BING to do the alignment of the new (or existing) partition?


Maybe you all are talking about only BIBM (but you did say "BING/BIBM")?

Jim

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:16 pm
by TeraByte Support
BIBM - you enable the global option for 2048 and then slide (don't need to
change any values).

"ohaya" wrote in message news:4529@public.bootitng...

Hi,

You all keep referring to using BING to align the partition. I may be
missing something, but I don't see an option in BING to align a partition.

I'm running BING 1.87, which I think was the last one before BIBM.

I just did a couple of experiments.

Experiment 1:

That 1.5TB drive started with an ~1.5 TB partition that was aligned (via
PAT).

I used BING to resize that partition down to ~1TB.

Then I used BING to create a new NTFS partition in the unallocated area,
taking all of the free space.

I then booted into Windows 7 and ran PAT, just to check if the partitions
were aligned. In WIndows 7 I formatted the new partition using defaults.

PAT showed the resized partition was aligned, but that the new partition was
not aligned.

Experiment 2:

I booted into BING.

I used BING to delete the 2nd partition (so there was the 1st partition,
~1TB, aligned, and ~500GB free space).

I then booted into Windows 7. In WIndows 7 I used Disk Management to create
a new Simple volume in the unallocated space, formatted the new partition
using defaults.

Then, I ran PAT, and PAT showed both partitions as being aligned.


So, like I said, I don't see an option in BING to do the alignment of the
new (or existing) partition?


Maybe you all are talking about only BIBM (but you did say "BING/BIBM")?

Jim


Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:54 pm
by TeraByte Support(PP)
When you ran your test was the "Align 2048" option enabled in BING's settings?

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:13 am
by ohaya
TeraByte Support(PP) wrote:
> When you ran your test was the "Align 2048" option enabled in
> BING's settings?

Paul,

No, it wasn't :(...

Question:

On my HD0 (the main drive inside the laptop), which is a 750GB, I have a bunch of partitions (BING is set for not limiting).

When I boot to Win7, I have a Boot item that has 4 of those partitions, including a SWAP partition where I put the Win7 pagefile.

I was able to get the SWAP partition aligned by using BING to delete the partition, and to create a partition in the same area. And then I booted into Win7 and used Windows Disk Management to format the drive NTFS. Then the SWAP partition now shows as aligned.

I can't do what I did with the SWAP partition, because I have Windows on the C: partition, and data on the other 2 partitions, but is there a way to use BING to get those other 3 partitions to be aligned? Maybe doing a resize and slide or something like that?

Here's the partinfo after booting to Win7:

PARTINFG, Version 1.01
Copyright (c) 2009,2013 TeraByte, Inc. All Rights Reseverd

Run Date: 1/29/2013 7:12 PM

===============================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x800181CD)
(CHS: 1022/254/63) (WCHS: 91201/255/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
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| 1: | 0 | 1023 0 1 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 102430440 | 30700215 |
| 2: | 0 | 1023 0 1 | 7 | 1023 237 3 | 133130655 | 204795489 |
| 3: | 0 | 1023 0 1 | 7 | 1023 224 2 | 337927275 | 806910869 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+

===============================================================================
EMBR Found (HD0)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision: 2 Min SPT: 9 Sectors: 1 SSize: 512
Last Cyl: 1022 Last Hd: 254 SPT: 63
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPT Found Revision: 5 Number of Entries: 10 Flag: 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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----- ------------------ ------ ----------------- ----------------- ---- ----
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4 DATA1 2000 337927275 1144838143 7 B9
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6 Win8 2000 1166174415 1309522409 7 3A
7 SWAP4WIN8 2000 1309522410 1342278944 7 43
8 BINGIMAGES 2000 1342278945 1463087744 C 54
9 DATA4FEDORA 2000 1463087745 1465144064 C B7
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MBFT Found Revision: 2 Number of Entries: 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MDT Found Revision: 2 Number of Entries: 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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===============================================================================
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===============================================================================
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(CHS: 1022/254/63) (WCHS: 182401/255/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
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+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
===============================================================================
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===============================================================================
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===============================================================================
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===============================================================================
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+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
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===============================================================================
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Jim

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:17 am
by ohaya
P.S. You mentioned the option for 2048, but with the AF drives, aren't the partitions suppose to start at 4096 multiples, rather than 2048?

Jim

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:42 am
by TeraByte Support
no. 4096 bytes you're talking certain device types, 2048 sectors is 1mib

"ohaya" wrote in message news:4538@public.bootitng...

P.S. You mentioned the option for 2048, but with the AF drives, aren't
the partitions suppose to start at 4096 multiples, rather than 2048?

Jim


Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:58 am
by ohaya
Hi,

The HD0 is also an AF drive, so I'd like to get all the partitions aligned to 4096? Can I do that with BING?

I was able to get ONE partition on that drive, the SWAP/D: partition to show as aligned, but had to use the Windows 7 format to do that, which was ok, since it wasn't a problem blowing away the SWAP partition.

However, the other 3 partitions, including my C: partition have stuff on them, including Windows on the C; partition, so is there a way to use BING to non-destructively get those 3 partitions aligned?

Jim

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:53 am
by Brian K
Jim,

In Settings, do you have Align 2048 sectors or Align 2KiB?

Then do the first post on this page to align the start of each partition on a 2048 sector boundary. A partition is 2048 sector aligned if you get an integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by 2048.

A partition is cylinder aligned if you get an integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by 16065.

Re: Will BING/BIBM have problems with an AF aligned drive?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:10 am
by ohaya
Brian K wrote:
> Jim,
>
> In Settings, do you have Align 2048 sectors or Align 2KiB?
>
> Then do the first post on this page to align the start of each partition on
> a 2048 sector boundary. A partition is 2048 sector aligned if you get an
> integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by
> 2048.
>
> A partition is cylinder aligned if you get an integer when you divide the
> number of sectors preceding the partition by 16065.


Hi Brian K,

I've been following a procedure that I found on the radified forum:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB. ... 1277891819

I've been guessing that the "Brian" was you??

I've done two of the partitions thus far, following those steps, and it looks like it worked thus far. I'm currently doing the C:/Windows partition, but that's taking forever to do the slide, probably because I unchecked the "Data Only" checkbox.

BTW, a couple of things I'm curious about:

1) How did you come up with that (the resize to -5, etc.)? I think I kind of understand what's going on, i.e., the initial resize gives BING some room to adjust the end of the partition when it does the slide?

2) As mentioned, I've been running HDTach, just to get an idea of whether this whole thing is affecting anything. Thus far, after I've aligned each partition, I'm seeing increased average read speed, from about 92MB/s to 97MB/s after aligning the 2nd partition. I'll run HDTach again when the C; partition has been aligned.

Thanks for that other post!

Jim