Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows installations on HP Business Notebook PCs and desktop PCs - White Paper (Rev 3)

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Sample validation
The example shown in Table 3 shows the sizes and offsets associated with four partitions. All eight
values must be divisible by 4,096.
Table 3. Validating the alignment of four sample partitions
Partition Partition size Starting offset
0 208,666,624 B 1,048,576 B
208,666,624 ÷ 4,096 = 50,944 1,048,576 ÷ 4,096 = 256
1 732,388,392,960 B 209,715,200 B
732,388,392,960 ÷ 4,096 = 178,805,760 209,715,200 ÷ 4,096 = 51,200
2 17,449,353,216 B 732,388,392,960 B
17,449,353,216 ÷ 4,096 = 4,260,096 732,388,392,960 ÷ 4,096 = 178,805,760
3 107,864,064 B 750,047,461,376 B
107864064 ÷ 4,096 = 26,334 750,047,461,376 ÷ 4,096 = 183,117,056