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WD Advanced Format
I'm cornfused. I have one of the new WD15EARS drives. It formatted with NTFS Through Windows at 1.36TB with 133 MB used. I don't have a problem with that. I Know about the 1024 thingy and the system uses up some space. What I am struggling with is WD has an alignment tool that evidently only works with a disk that has been formatted with the advanced format tool. Now WD supplies a WD True Image app that will handle the advanced format. But I have not loaded it because I allready have Acronis True Image 2010 loaded and running. I am wondering if it will bork my present app with both of them loaded. Then I read a couple of places that there is a very small advantage to the advanced format. So it might not really be needed (advanced format). What is everybody else doing?