A drive reports its Advanced Format status via several words in the ATA Identify Device information block. These words are optional, so the drive may in fact be an AF model without identifying itself as such. In this case Acronis wouldn’t be aware of the drive’s physical sector size and would assume that it is 512 bytes.
Can you capture the drive’s Identify Device data using CrystalDiskInfo? We could then compare these data against the ATA standard.
