Imaging/backing up old HDD's w/advanced format HDD's

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By old HDD's I mean the old 512-byte physical sector HDD's. What happens if you backup/restore an image from an old HDD to an advanced format HDD? Do the differences in physical sector size become an issue?
 

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According to clonezilla's documentation:

Clonezilla is not 100% compatible with "WD Advanced Format" (4096-byte) disk.
It works for the following cases:
"WD Advanced Format" disk to "WD Advanced Format" disk
"WD Advanced Format" disk to 512-byte disk disk But it won't work for 512-byte disk to "WD Advanced Format" disk.
If you want to clone 512-byte disk to "WD Advanced Format" disk, after using Clonezilla to clone it, you have to use the tool "wd align" from WD to tune that on the destination disk, or manually tune the partition table on GNU/Linux.