Okay. Yes, you are right. The newer drives have those jumper pins disabled. Here is the break down. WD Align can only align one partition on a drive. Acronis, however, will actually align more than one partition. I don’t know how many it can align, but it should be at least two. You can download and install Acronis from our downloads page.
I was able to align two partitions (300 GB and 631 GB) on my WD Elements SE Portable 1 TB external hard drive (Model WDBPCK0010BBK) using WD Align. So, WD Align CAN align more than one partition.
I will try Acronis. If it works, I will post an update here.
I will also try GParted as suggested by fzabkar.
