Did I set up my hard drive correctly?

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siphonsiphon

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I just set up a new hard drive (WD1002FAEX, new) in an external enclosure (Vantec NexStar HX) on a Win7 laptop.

I am feeling insecure whether I did it correctly, because I never quite understood Advanced Format and how it might interact with using an enclosure.

When I run the command "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo O:" I get, among other information:

O:\>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo O:
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Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : <Not Supported>
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

I'm puzzled why I'm seeing 512 Bytes Per Sector if the drive is Advanced Format? Did I do it wrong? Thanks!
 
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Hi popatim,
Thank you for the reply!
Just wanting to make sure I understand correctly... it sounds like that's good news for me, right? The "Bytes Per Sector" field saying 512 is just for emulation, but the drive is really doing the Advanced Format correctly-- is that the 4096 bytes listed in the "Bytes Per Cluster" field?
The drive is going to be for family photos which is why I'm being cautious to make sure I didn't do something wrong when I formatted it.
Thank you!
 
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