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.
Further reading
- Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (2011). The gen on disc partition alignment. Frequently Given Answers.