Summary of HP Advanced Format tools
HP has released a number of SoftPaqs for disk information and partition alignment tools. While these tools are unnecessary if partitions have been 4
Table 4 briefly summarizes the features of these tools.
Table 4. Summary the sources for and key features of HP Advanced Format (AF) tools
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| Unattended AF Disk Information Tool |
| AF Disk Information Tool | Paragon Partition Alignment Tool | Paragon Partition Alignment Tool for Workstations (offline edition for CD) | Paragon Partition Alignment Tool for Linux |
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| Desktop/POS |
| sp56815 |
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| sp53063 |
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| sp53063 | sp55511 |
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| Notebook |
| sp56528 |
| sp57093(3) | sp52890 |
| sp53121(4) |
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| Superseded SoftPaqs |
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| Desktop/POS |
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| Workstation |
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| Notebook |
| sp56211(2) |
| sp52575(3) |
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| Key features |
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| Unattended |
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| No installation required |
| X |
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| Detect AF disk |
| X |
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| Detect SSD |
| X |
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| Report 4 KB alignment |
| X |
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| Report 1 MB alignment |
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| Sample scripts |
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| Supported on non- |
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| Aligns partitions |
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