One of my Hitachi DeskStar 7K160 hard disks died today and the other one is not safe (has bad sectors) so I've ordered a new 1 TB WD Blue WD10EZEX. Apparently nowadays new hard disks come with this Advanced Format technology. I don't know much about hard disk partitioning, cylinders, blocks, aligning &c. but as I read, wrong type of configuration can cause problems such as slower R/W speeds, loss of capacity &c.
This is how I would like to partition the new drive:
win7(NTFS) | storage1 (NTFS) | swap | debian jessie (EXT4) | storage2 (EXT4) *
Should I just use Debian's partition manager (on netinstall, I guess it's gparted based?) -as I always do- then install win7 (64-bit) and then install Debian and I should not encounter any problems? If not, should I worry about:
What partition manager should I employ?
This wiki suggest that I use GPT instead of MBR. But I have an old motherboard with BIOS, no UEFI. Can I use GPT at all?
Is having windows on the same hard disk with Debian gonna screw things up?
Just what is the correct procedure to partition this new hard disk?!
*: The order of the partitions can be different if this order is gonna cause problems.
