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Aligning partitions to 4k boundaries results in 512b free space at beginning of drive

I'm partitioning a disk for FreeBSD installation. I create my partitions/slices: gpart create -s mbr ada0 gpart add -t freebsd -s 1G ada0 gpart add -t freebsd ada0 gpart create -s bsd ada0s1 Now I ...
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Migrate Win7 upgrade from 63 sector to 4096 sector advanced format disk

If I use the Windows 7 backup on a system that has the 63 sector starting location and restore it to an advanced format 4096 sector system, will the restore create the starting sector at 63 or 4096?
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