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XP doesn't natively support hard disks with non-512-byte sectors, leading to performance degradation (and possibly more wear?) on modern, higher-capacity hard d
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
XP doesn't natively support hard disks with non-512-byte sectors, leading to performance degradation (and possibly more wear?) on modern, higher-capacity hard drives which use 4096-byte sectors and have to emulate 512-byte sectors for Windows XP's sake.
- brassic 10y agoVanilla Windows 7 doesn't support 4K sectors either. I discovered this when I unthinkingly replaced my laptop's failing disk with a 4K disk. Windows 7 installed itself from the recovery DVD, but would blue screen on the first reboot.