Just to dispel any doubts that the drive is not being detected/identified as an AF drive, I am providing data reported by two programs.
And when I say “AF drives”, I mean those drives that have 4096-byte physical sectors.
However, I am now aware of atleast one AF drive (WD20EARS) in existence that has 512-byte physical sectors.
See it here.
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop-Portable-Drives/WD20EARS-differences-why/m-p/544451#M12562
In the above link, you will see two (almost) identical models, with the drive label on BOTH drives mentioning ‘Advanced Format’. However, one drive reports 512-byte physical sectors while other reports 4096-byte physical sectors.
1> Here is the data reported by Disk Alignment Test program.
Information about my old PATA primary drive has been edited.
Disk Alignment Test 1.0.10 Report
Computer: JINX
Operating system: Windows XP 32-bit (2600)
Overall status: Wrong alignment is detected.
Disk 1: [ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00ZF5A0]
* Capacity: 932 Gb
* Logical block size: 512 bytes
* Physical block size: 4096 bytes
* Physical offset: 0 blocks
* Serial number: [REMOVED]
* Firmware: 80.00A80
Volume G:
* Length: 300 Gb
* Free space: 300 Gb
* File system: NTFS
* Cluster size: 4096 bytes
* Placement: Disk 1 [63, 629153532]: NOT aligned
Volume H:
* Length: 632 Gb
* Free space: 631 Gb
* File system: NTFS
* Cluster size: 4096 bytes
* Placement: Disk 1 [629153595, 1324366470]: NOT aligned
2> I also burned a CD with the Align tool, used the CD to boot the computer and ran the Align tool.
It said that the partitions are aligned.
It created a ZIP file which contained the Acronis System Report in four TXT files.
Below is data from the “disks.txt” file.
PS Speed IFace Hs-Bs-Tg Model
Num NT L9NO Size FSsize Free FS Type Label ABCHSV
---- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ------ --------------- ----------- ------
1- d(0) MBR 932G 1K SATA 0-0-0 WDC WD10EZEX-00ZF5A0
-1 p(1) --CC 300G 300G 0b NTFS 07 NTFS, HPFS … A----v
-2 p(2) --DD 632G 632G 0b NTFS 07 NTFS, HPFS … -----v
2.5M free ------
Disk 1 properties:
BIOS number: 0x80
Geometry: 121602 255 63
Total sectors: 1953525168
Logical Sector Size: 512
Physical Sector Size: 4096
Logical Sector Offset: 0
Legacy ATA Encrypted: 0
TCG OPAL Encryption Capable: 0
AZ Alignment enabled: 1
BIOS extension properties:
Extension version: 3.0
Functions supported: Ext. EDD
Transparent DMA: 0
CHS information: None
Removable drive: 0
Write with verify: 0
Change-line: 0
Lockable drive: 0
Geometry: 16383 16 63
Total sectors: 1953525168
Sector size: 512
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. [SECTOR DATA HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM HERE]
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MBR 1-:
First physical sector: 0 (0 0 1)
Table extended structure
Extended boot sector: 0
Extended hidden partitions: 00 Unused
00 Unused
00 Unused
00 Unused
Extended boot disk: 0x00
Extended patch flags: FAT16(-) MS-DOS7+(-) FAT32(-) OS/2(-)
Extended OS/2 patch: 0x00
Extended checksum (0x59): 0x2C
Extended size (14): 25412
NT signature: 0xFE28DC8D
Extended serial number: 0x0000
i f Start C H S End C H S Start Size Type
- - ---------- — – ---------- — – ---------- ---------- ----
0 A 0 1 1 1023 254 63 63 629153532 07 NTFS, HPFS
A 0 1 1 1023 254 63 63 629153532 07 NTFS, HPFS
- 0 1 1 39162 254 63 63 629153532
- - ---------- — – ---------- — – ---------- ---------- ----
1 - 1023 254 63 1023 254 63 629153595 1324366470 07 NTFS, HPFS
- 1023 254 63 1023 254 63 629153595 1324366470 07 NTFS, HPFS
- 39163 0 1 121600 254 63 629153595 1324366470
- - ---------- — – ---------- — – ---------- ---------- ----
2 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Unused
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Unused
- - ---------- — – ---------- — – ---------- ---------- ----
3 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Unused
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Unused
Boot sign (0x0AA55): 0xAA55
Partition 1-1: of type 07 NTFS, HPFS and size 300G
First physical sector: 63 (0 1 1)
Last physical sector: 629153594 (39162 254 63)
Total sectors: 629153532
NTFS bootsector structure:
Jump code: 0xEB 0x52 0x90
File system name: NTFS
Sector size (512): 512
Sectors per cluster: 8
Reserved sectors (0): 0
FAT copies (0): 0
Root folder items (0): 0
Total sectors (0): 0
Media ID: 0xF8
FAT size (0): 0
Sectors per track: 63
Number of heads: 255
Hidden sectors: 63
Big total sectors (0): 0
Hard disk: 0x80
Reserved: 0x00 0x0080
Big total sectors: 629153531
MFT cluster: 786432
MFTmirr cluster: 39322095
MFT record size: -10
Index buffer size: 1
Serial number: 2600-84B0-0084-890F
Boot signature (0AA55h): 0xAA55
Partition 1-2: of type 07 NTFS, HPFS and size 632G
First physical sector: 629153595 (39163 0 1)
Last physical sector: 1953520064 (121600 254 63)
Total sectors: 1324366470
NTFS bootsector structure:
Jump code: 0xEB 0x52 0x90
File system name: NTFS
Sector size (512): 512
Sectors per cluster: 8
Reserved sectors (0): 0
FAT copies (0): 0
Root folder items (0): 0
Total sectors (0): 0
Media ID: 0xF8
FAT size (0): 0
Sectors per track: 63
Number of heads: 255
Hidden sectors: 629153595
Big total sectors (0): 0
Hard disk: 0x80
Reserved: 0x00 0x0080
Big total sectors: 1324366469
MFT cluster: 786432
MFTmirr cluster: 82772904
MFT record size: -10
Index buffer size: 1
Serial number: 689C-9FCE-9C9F-94E2
Boot signature (0AA55h): 0xAA55
Free space 1-: of size 2.5M
First physical sector: 1953520065 (121601 0 1)
Last physical sector: 1953525167 (121601 80 63)
Total sectors: 5103
Disk 1 Partition 1
FS: NTFS
FSSize: 629153529 (300G)
BlockSize: 8 (4K)
BlockCount: 78644191 (300G)
FreeBlockCount: 0 (0b)
ReservedSectors: 0 (0b)
FATSize: 0 (0b)
FATCount: 0 (0b)
RootEntries: 0 (0b)
UsedRootEntries: 0 (0b)
InodeSize: 1024 (1K)
InodeCount: 0 (0b)
BytesPerInode: 0 (0b)
VolumeLabel: …
SerialNumber: 0F 89 84 00 B0 84 00 26 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
CheckPerformed: 0
UsefulInformation: 0 (0b)
BadBlockCount: 0 (0b)
FreeInodeCount: 0 (0b)
FilesCount: 0
DirectoriesCount: 1
HardLinkCount: 0
SymLinkCount: 0
BlockDeviceCount: 0
CharDeviceCount: 0
SocketCount: 0
FifoCount: 0
JournalSize: 0 (0b)
Disk 1 Partition 2
FS: NTFS
FSSize: 1324366465 (632G)
BlockSize: 8 (4K)
BlockCount: 165545808 (632G)
FreeBlockCount: 0 (0b)
ReservedSectors: 0 (0b)
FATSize: 0 (0b)
FATCount: 0 (0b)
RootEntries: 0 (0b)
UsedRootEntries: 0 (0b)
InodeSize: 1024 (1K)
InodeCount: 0 (0b)
BytesPerInode: 0 (0b)
VolumeLabel: …
SerialNumber: E2 94 9F 9C CE 9F 9C 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
CheckPerformed: 0
UsefulInformation: 0 (0b)
BadBlockCount: 0 (0b)
FreeInodeCount: 0 (0b)
FilesCount: 0
DirectoriesCount: 1
HardLinkCount: 0
SymLinkCount: 0
BlockDeviceCount: 0
CharDeviceCount: 0
SocketCount: 0
FifoCount: 0
JournalSize: 0 (0b)