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Using WMIC
1.
After the operating system has been installed, run
wmic
from the Windows command line.
2.
At the resulting prompt, type
partition list full
to display information about system partitions.
3.
Identify the offset value of each partition and divide by 4096. If the value is exactly divisible, the
partition is aligned.
Using DiskPart
1.
Boot the system to WinPE 2.1 or later.
2.
Execute the DiskPart utility to display information about specific sy
s
tem partitions.
For example, use the following script is to display information about Disk 0, Partition 1 (as shown
in Figure 4):
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 1
detail partition
Figure 4
.Sample script output
Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden: No
Active: No
Offset in Bytes:1048576
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- ------
* Volume 1 NTFS Partition 9 GB Healthy
3.
Divide the offset value of the selected partition by 4096. If exactly divisible, the partition is
aligned.