On 04/22/2016 10:18 PM, g wrote:
after reading replies, i feel easiest way to get a good partition layout was a complete repartitioning and formatting.
easiest way to do that is start with a new drive. during install, i will do partitioning and formatting. that is i am presuming that installation will know how to properly set up partitions so that all partitions are by full cylinders.
A new install will default to partitions with 1-Megabyte alignment (2048 LBA sectors). That is totally unrelated to "cylinders".