Advanced Formatting is Western Digital's new formatting structure, which divides the drive into 4,096-byte sectors instead of the smaller 512-byte sectors used in most "current" drives.

WD has a software tool that allows proper use of this formatting in Windows XP.
For this tool, go here:
»support.wdc.com/product/download···?sid=123

For information on how this applies to the EADS series drives from WD, go here:
»www.storagereview.com/western_di···wd20ears

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