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Contents
Introducing the Paragon Alignment Tool ..................................................................................................... 3
What is PAT? .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Product Components .................................................................................................................................. 3
Key Features ............................................................................................................................................... 3
About Partition Alignment .......................................................................................................................... 4
What is Partition Alignment? ...................................................................................................................... 4
Why are Misaligned Partitions a Problem for Hard Disk Drives? ................................................................... 4
How can the Paragon Alignment Tool help? ................................................................................................ 6
Getting Started with the Paragon Alignment Tool........................................................................................ 8
System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 8
Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 9
First Start .................................................................................................................................................... 9
Obtaining and burning the Universal Recovery CD ....................................................................................... 9
Emergency Booting from the Universal Recovery CD ..................................................................................10
Contacts ....................................................................................................................................................10
Using the Paragon Alignment Tool .............................................................................................................11
Recovery after Interrupted Alignment with the PAT Universal Recovery CD ................................................14
Additional Options .....................................................................................................................................16
Undelete Partition .....................................................................................................................................16
Fixing the Master Boot Record (MBR) with Boot Corrector .........................................................................19
Correcting the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) ............................................................................................21
Marking Partitions Active ...........................................................................................................................23
Changing Drive Letters ...............................................................................................................................24
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