![]() You can either use a 3rd party tool to get the 'correct' offset 64 (x512 = 4 x 4k) OR set a 'jumper' to 'tell the drive' to add an extra +1 (512byte) sector offset (not all drives have this jumper). The result is that NTFS formatting a 2TB partition will take about 14 hours and data transfers will be between 4x and 8x SLOWER than they should be :-). This will cripple your hard disk performance, since it results in everything 'starting' at a point 7/8th the way through a 4kb sector (so, every 'write' to the drive means an existing 4k sector has to be read and then the last 7/8th replaced with new data). Microsoft's moronic Windows XP Disk Manager creates Partition with a 63 (x512 = 3.9 x 4k) sector 'offset'. >2Tb Drives with XP WARNING - almost all current hard drives use a 4kb sectors with 512b sector 'emulation'. ![]()
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