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Answer by JdeBP for Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead of 63?

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Because your old disc was partitioned with a old utility, such as the Linux fdisk, that uselessly implemented track-alignment using the entirely fake disc geometry that you see reported, and your new disc has been or is being partitioned by a newer utility that (by default) aligns to 1MiB boundaries instead.

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