reason I am looking is because of the backup sw I am using. Not supposed to work with the new format. I ran diskpart and got a offset on boot drive of 1024 ( sounds right) and a offset of the backup clone drive of 32 which I think is telling me the backup sw did not do advanced format on the clone.
Am beta testing sw for a Japanese company. fp At 08:25 AM 2/14/2011, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: >Research. Unfortunately, most (all?) AF drives currently emulate 512b >sectors to the system. There is a mechanism for a drive to report the real >physical sector size in addition to the emulated one, but I don't believe >it's universally implemented. > >Unless you're running an archaic OS (ie: XP or earlier) or use disk cloning >utilities though, it shouldn't matter. Vista and later use a 1MB starting >offset that aligns well with just about everything. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Reality is something you must always rise above.
