Hello!
I finally managed to solve the partition aligning problem on the WD Blue WD10EZEX AF drive. As I have said many times before in this thread, WD Align Tool is not able to detect unaligned partitions on the WD10EZEX model.
I recently purchased two more WD10EZEX-00RKKA0 drives (manufactured March 2013). The model number is different from the first drive I have (WD10EZEX-00ZF5A0). WD Align Tool DID NOT WORK with the two new drives also.
However, I was able to create properly-aligned partitions on all three drives using ’ Acronis True Image WD Edition’. I used the ‘Add New Disk’ option to create primary/extended partitions.
Just FYI:
WD Align (Version: 2.0.111) publish date is January 2012.
Acronis True Image (Version: 14192) publish date is May 2012.
I can confidently say now that WD Align Tool definitely needs to be updated to accomodate the new drive models.
Thanks a lot for your help Bill_S and fzabkar. I really appreciate it.
