migrating from 512 byte secotor 4Kb advanced sector

Nov 26, 2005
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I am just about full on my Samsung F3 1Tb drive. I'd like to re-organized the files on the drive. Will there be a problem going from a 512 byte sector drive to a new 4Kb Advanced format sector drive?
 

RaiderJ

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Apr 29, 2001
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Shouldn't be, depending on your OS. WinXP would need an alignment tool run on the drive first, but Windows 7 should be fine. Sector size on a hard drive is usually abstracted away and in general should be transparent in practical operation.