Does Disk Director 11 handle 4k sector drives correctly?
Does DD11 partition 4k sector drives correctly, aka aligned to the 4k boundaries? Also are all additional partitions created aligned correctly?
Thanks
Bill
"3.6 Working with disks having a 4-KB sector size
Starting from January 2011, the standard size of a sector—the unit of information storage—on
newly-manufactured hard disk drives becomes 4 KB (4096 bytes), as opposed to the current size of
512 bytes.
The latest operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Vista, already support the new
sector size. For Windows XP, however, you need to take extra steps to ensure normal access to the
volumes on such disks.
When creating volumes on a disk with a 4-KB sector size that you are planning to access from
Windows XP, follow these guidelines:
If Windows 7 or Windows Vista is installed in addition to Windows XP, select the disk layout of
either of those operating systems—see Disk layout (p. 21). 16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010
(If you are running Acronis Disk Director from one of those operating systems, the proper disk
layout is already selected by default.)
Otherwise, create the volumes by running Acronis Disk Director from a bootable media—see
Working under bootable media (p. 53).
After the volumes are created, you can perform other operations with them (including changing their
size) under any disk layout."
from teh manual on
http://www.acronis.eu/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
http://download.acronis.com/pdf/ADD11H_userguide_en-EU.pdf
Thanks for the info. Considering the manual is 87 pages long you would think they could have given better/more complete info on 4k sector drive support. I suppose DD11 will almost support 4k sectors as TI2010 almost does. I just wonder how they can claim Vista/Windows 7 compatibility when 4k sector support is missing from TI2010. Maybe TI 2060 and DD43 will actually do what they claim in the sales pitch and release notes. Na I doubt it.