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How can I determine the sector size on an external hard drive?
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Hard drives are transitioning from 512 byte to 4096 byte sector sizes, and it looks like Windows XP won't support these newer drives without additional software (such as WDalign from Western Digital) My question is: how does this affect external hard drives? I'll be buying a 1TB USB external drive,…
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Run from a Windows Command Prompt. The output looks like: Where block size is the drive's sector size. It unfortunately doesn't list the drive letter. Also as I understand the article, the drive will still list that it has 512 byte sectors even thou…
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