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Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows installations on HP Business Notebook PCs and Desktop PCs Technical white XP image deployment 6 Aligning drives in a RAID configuration 7 Using third-party deployment tools ...7 Replacing a drive on a Windows 2000 platform 7 Enhancing performance with - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 2
instructions for preparing an Advanced Format hard drive for a Microsoft® Windows® installation on an HP Business Notebook or Desktop PC, or Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) system. Historically, hard disk drives (HDDs) have used it is an Advanced Format drive Reviewing the label on the HDD to determine - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 3
a range of scenarios involving the use of Advanced Format drives and describes depend on the OS being used. When running an OS that misaligned partition. You can typically use the Paragon Partition Alignment Tool outline a number of scenarios involving the use of Advanced Format-aware drives and - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 4
HP) media A A E E E E E B You are installing HP restore media A A E E E A B E You are installing an HP F11 restore image A A B B B A B B You are using This scenario is not supported by HP. C For WinPE version of the AMD SATA AHCI Driver. Note: When a Linux image - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 5
deployment Aligning drives in a RAID configuration Using third-party deployment tool Replacing a drive on a Windows 2000 platform proceeding, you should decrypt, align and re-encrypt the drive using the instructions provided with your encryption software. Installing Windows Vista (prior to - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 6
if you grow the partition incorrectly, you will receive a blue screen of death (BSOD). Options for extending the partition include: Force on the amount of patching employed in the image, other problems may occur. Thus, if you are using ImageX, rely on Diskpart to extend the partition. In addition - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 7
an older drive on a Windows 2000 platform, you may need to update the registry if you are using an Advanced Format drive as a replacement. The drives originally installed on Windows 2000 platforms tend to have capacities below 137 GB, which is typically less than an Advanced Format drive. Thus - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 8
Download the Windows PE hotfix to your c: drive from the Microsoft Support site at http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=982018&kbln=en-us. 2. Unzip partition alignment: Using Microsoft DiskExt (for Windows XP or later platforms) Using the Windows Management Information - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 9
3. Identify the Partition Starting Offset value of each partition and divide by 4096. If the value is exactly divisible, the partition is aligned. Using WMIC 1. After the operating system has been installed, run wmic from the Windows command line. 2. At the resulting prompt, type partition list full - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 10
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 0 Partition size 208,666,624 B Starting offset 1,048,576 B 208,666,624 ÷ - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 11
Phase-in of Advanced Format drives There is no set cut-over date for the introduction of Advanced Format drives into new HP Business Notebook or Desktop PCs, or Retail POS systems; instead, drives will be phased in, as shown in Table 4. Note the following caveats: While Advanced - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 12
image I create will be supported on Advanced Format drives? It depends on your environment and the deployment tool you are using. More information is provided by HP is Advanced Format-aware. For information on partition alignment for SUSE Linux, refer to http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 13
HP choose to support emulation rather than drives with 4-KB native sector format? While this was considered, the existing system infrastructure has been designed around a logical 512-byte sector - notably the hard disk boot device above (Using other disk imaging utilities) and then use the following - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 14
The following decision tree for managed IT applies to 2011 models: Notes 1. WinPE: Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment 2. For more information on creating the image (including driver requirements), refer to this white paper. You can create the image on a drive with 512 byte or 4 KB sectors - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 15
in 1956, industry-standard HDDs have used 512-byte sectors on their internal media. However, this relatively small sector size constrains storage capacity and has also caused manufacturing capabilities to reach a limit. Under the sponsorship and support of the International Disk Drive Equipment and - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 16
the disk drive. However, if logical writes are aligned to physical sectors and write lengths are in multiples of 4 KB, then new data can completely replace old data; the drive does not have to perform any extra steps for a write operation. Newer operating systems like Windows Vista SP1 or later and - HP ENVY 14t-1000 | Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows i - Page 17
technet.microsoft.com/enus/sysinternals/bb896648.aspx Getting Started Guide for Windows Deployment http://technet.microsoft.com/en- Services us/library/cc771670(WS.10).aspx Partition alignment for SUSE Linux http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?exte rnalId=7007193&sliceId=1 Intel RST
Preparing Advanced Format hard drives
for Microsoft Windows installations on HP
Business Notebook PCs and Desktop PCs
Technical white paper
Table of contents
Executive summary
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Identifying an Advanced Format drive
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What does the Advanced Format drive mean to you?
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Important tips
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Encrypting drives
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Installing Windows Vista (prior to SP1), Windows XP or Windows 2000 images
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Creating a 1 MB-aligned partition
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Extending the partition during a Windows XP image deployment
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Aligning drives in a RAID configuration
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Using third-party deployment tools
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Replacing a drive on a Windows 2000 platform
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Enhancing performance with many small writes (as with ImageX)
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Validating partition alignment
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Using DiskExt
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Using WMIC
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Using Diskpart
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Sample validation
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Phase-in of Advanced Format drives
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Frequently asked questions
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Hard drive deployment decision tree for managed IT
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Appendix A: Technical background
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Partition alignment
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Why alignment helps
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For more information
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