Questions tagged [advanced-format]
Advanced Format refers to hard drives that use sector sizes of greater than 512 bytes. Most AF drives use 4096 byte sectors.
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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What is my miniport's service name?
i am trying to query the physical sector size of my drive using fsutil:
C:\Windows\system32>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x78cc11b2cc116c1e
Version : ...
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Unable to read contents on an Advanced Format disk when using some USB docking stations
I have Linux Mint 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 14.04) with 4.4.0 kernel.
I own a Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX hard drive with 1TB capacity. The label on this drive says it is an "Advanced Format" ...
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MacOSX: Truecrypt partition on HDDs with larger sector size than 512 bytes
I have an external USB 3.0 HDD which uses a sector size larger than 512 bytes (4kB). In Linux, I created a truecrypt encrypted partition on it, which works fine on any Linux or Windows Computer. ...
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Will 4096 bytes alignment benefit on SSD with 512 bytes sector size?
My SSD physical sector size is 512 bytes. Will 4096 byte alignment benefit in IO operations? Currently the 1st partition (Recovery) has starting offset at 32 256 bytes according to msinfo32. The ...
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Office 2010: Customizing keyboard shortcuts for advanced find options
I repeatedly do the following to find text with a certain color in Word 2010:
Navigation > Advanced find > More > Find "Format" > Font > Font color > Custom
and then type the color ...
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Do new USB flash drives use advanced format (AF)?
I just want to know if that new feature (AF - advanced format) on some hard drives, is present on flash (USB external disk) drives as well. I'm a little bit confused because a simple check on /dev/...
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Cloning a 512 sector size to Advanced Format WD Black drive
I have a old WD Black drive that is not Advanced Format. Due to it having one bad sector in a unused area I need to clone it to a new hard drive to avoid losing data. Unfortunately the same model of ...
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2160p HEVC 4K video not playing
This video is not playing in pc
I have tried vlc 3.0016, Media Player classic and pot player but did not able to figure out the correct configuration to run the video.
Any suggestion of any other ...
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Hugo utility changes HGST drive firmware through USB3?
I got a WD Elements external drive. And from the looks of it it seems to have a HGST helium filled 8TB drive inside (SMART says it has the code 022). It is possible to change the firmware of this ...
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Read data from Advanced Format disk over USB adapter
I have a WD Green 6TB HDD with data on it. When I plug it into either macOS or Windows, it always shows as 18TB empty.
I'm using a SATA to USB 3 adapter to connect it, and it seems that it's lacking ...
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How to remove files and personal information from computer?
I'm about to give my computer to a lab for repair. I'd like first to remove personal info like browsing history, software installed, various files.
Some of the files I want removed, I accidently ...
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What defines the signature of a bootsector?
I've attempted to simplify the question, by getting at the gist of the problem:
What exactly makes the "first sector" of a device the "bootsector?"
Is the bootsector a logical sector, a physical ...
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Older HP SAS drives and Advanced Format?
I am having a bit of hard time getting a solid answer from any HP documentation.
I have a bunch of old(er) HP 10k SAS drives I wanted to use. I wanted to align them to 4k sectors but I cannot ...
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