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. 
WD Advanced Format confusion
debian;partition;grub2
In short, you don't need to worry about it as partitioning tools were patched years ago to handle this.  Also Advanced Format has nothing to do with GPT; you only need to use that for disks > 2 TiB or if you are using UEFI.  Windows does not support GPT without UEFI.