The drive is a 250GB 7200K drive. I'm fairly certain this is using 4KiB sectors. I did an alignment test with some of their tools and everything shows as it is a 4KiB Drive.
I wiped the factory partitions out, reinstalled W7 image from WDS and still the same problem. I cannot read this drive outside of that laptop. I docked it in my W7 box and it still shows it as an unknown/raw partition. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > So I just purchased a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop. In the package I found a > yellow notice about 512e drives. So I read about this and it looks like the > partitioning of the drive is different. Do you have a hard disk larger 1 terabyte or larger? If not, then as far as I know, it doesn't apply. It appears nobody is implementing 4 KiB sectors except on drives that big. Even if your hard disk *is* larger than 1 terabyte, your drive may or may not be using 4 KiB sectors internally. You'd have to check with Dell to see if you have one of those drives. Dell appears to be putting that note in everything they ship, regardless of how big the drive is. We just got an E6520 with a 128 GB SSD and it had that note. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
