Question about the format of Toshiba 2 TB HARD drive sector size

Hello

I bought a Toshiba HDD 2 TB HDS5C3020BLE 2 TB (sold as Toshiba PA4292E - 1 HL 0) with firmware MZ4OAAB0 installed on a pc running XP sp3.

I formatted with windows utility, in AUTO mode sector size.
I have to align the sectors with other partition like other tools 2 TB hard drive with 4 k sector or not?

Post edited by: gnpb (model toshiba added)

Simply choose the FAT32 or NTFS file format and choose auto to the sector size option

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