Actually, I re-read that Microsoft blurb again… their “Known Incompatibility” is for drives that report a logical sector size of anything other than 512 bytes.
By definition, despite the fact that they have 4096-byte physical sectors, _ all _ AF drives report a logical size of 512… that’s what makes them AF instead of 4096-native.
So, according to that page, there _ shouldn’t _ be an issue imaging to or from an AF drive, or restoring the image. As I say, I’ve not encountered an issue… my images have worked, both during creation and in restoring.
