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Offset Paramet for SSD Drives - Is one added for each partition?

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I want to partition a single physical SSD into two partitions, C and D. It is my understanding that when C is created it must have a offset value such as 1024. So that command I plan on using is "create primary partition size=100000 offset=1024". When I create D do I also have to create and offset of is that taken care of by the one created for C? Thanks in advance for any help on this question.

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The offset is needed only in front of the first partition. No free space before any other partitions.

Ronald,

In addition to setting an 1MB offset to the first partition, another requirement is that each partition size is a whole number of MB. As a result, each partition starts with an offset that can be divided by 4096 when expressed in bytes.