Windows 10: Cloning with MACRIUM -- Partition Alignment

Getting ready to Clone for the first time using Macrium Free. Going from a bootable UEFI HDD to a SSD.

I read comments that Partition Alignment is important on SSD's, specifically the "alignment to 4KB boundaries for optimum performance and life." What I can't seem to find is whether this is selectable in the cloning process. Does this have to be selected or does Macrium do it automatically? THX

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Partition Alignment Spreadsheet

Which cloning software exactly are you referring to ?
I'll shortly need to do this re-alignment on a couple of old Laptops when their new SSDs arrive *Smile

 

Partition Alignment Spreadsheet

Some cloning software will restore an image to a partition without changing the partition's alignment. That means that if you image your system to another drive, delete your misaligned partition, create an aligned partition, quick format it and restore the image back to the newly aligned partition, your result is an aligned partition with your software and OS as they were originally. It's much preferable to create an aligned partition and restore to it rather than fix a misaligned partition.

Jason

 

Partition Alignment Spreadsheet

Jason,

I have a suggestion. How about updating the spreadsheet to have a section "Proposed remedy"

What it would do is calculate how many bytes you have to move the partition forwards or backwards to achieve alignment. That way, we can just use the resulting data in a partition manager to fix it.