Guest Fredrik.Coulter Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 This is a strange one. But here goes. I'm attempting to replace a 500 Gig hard drive with a 1 T hard drive. My plan of action was to use Paragon Hard Disk Manager to copy the entire drive. However, it refuses to do so because the sector sizes aren't the same on the old and new drive. Fine, I'll partition the big drive into smaller sectors, then reform one of them with the same sector size as the original drive. The original C: drive is 465.7GB, divided into several small partitions and one large C: partition, 451GB, using NTFS 3.01, a sector size of 512 Bytes and 8 Sectors per cluster. When I attempt to format a partition on the new drive of less than 465GB in size, I am not allowed to create a sector size of 512. So, what's the story? How is Dell doing something that I can't do. (The sector size difference is not letting me use the copy hard drive or copy partition wizards, which is really a pain. Hopefully, doing a file copy of C: to the new drive will work.) Fredrik V Coulter MOS (Excel 2007), MOCMI (2003), MOCE (Acess, PowerPoint, Word, Excel 97), MCP (2.0) Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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