[snip] >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > > <snip the rest> > > From what I recall of looking at that toy's specs, it's running on an > SSD, so it becomes even more important, performance-wise, to have > things aligned properly so any one write doesn't cause two full erase > blocks to be cycled. The 1MB alignment is, if I recall, a balance > Microsoft struck as the midpoint between multiple hardware vendors to > work well on any of them... raid arrays, SSDs, advanced format hard > drives with 4k sectors on-disk, etc.
Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? - Grant
