Obviously, I want to use the new drive “at full performance”. The drive is recognized by XP and assigned a drive letter. However, I was also told that the WD Align program would only apply in this circumstance to an INTERNAL WD hard drive, not one that is external and connected via USB. I don’t really understand how it would do that. My reading on this site suggests that perhaps I should download and run the WD Align program because it “allows Advanced Format drives operating under Windows XP to run at full performance”. There is some reference to moving a jumper in order to use Advanced Format with XP, but I imagine that would not apply to this tightly sealed external drive box. It seems that the new 4k sectors are truly “better”, thanks to improved ECC, and possibly even improved speed, relative to the old 512-byte sectors.Īnd, I believe that this new Elements external drive already has the Advanced Format media inside. In any case, my reading about Advanced Format leaves me confused. But I am really indifferent about which backup software to use.Įventually, those PCs will be replaced by newer laptops, probably running Win 7 or even 8. One PC has historically used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery software, and the other PC historically used Paragon Backup and SyncBack software. I would like to use it to backup two different Thinkpad laptops, each running Win XP SP3. I have a brand new WD Elements 2TB external USB drive, model WDBAAU0020HBK-01.
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