Does anyone know how to change windows to recognize the disks with 520 bytes per sector? Or one knows if Windows 7 will recognize no 512 bytes per sector drives? Reader vendors will move to larger areas in the future.

Windows does not recognize disks that are not 512 bytes per sector. Put readers at the point as unknown and I can't access it through the operating system. Is there something I can change to get Windows to recognize the disks that are not 512 bytes per sector?

Hello MetalRain,

Thank you for your message.  Are you able to see the disks in disk management?  Try the following:
Click 'Start' > right click on 'My computer' > select 'manage '.
Click on "disk management".
On the right, you see your drive?  If so, you can right click and it assign a drive letter.
Now you should be able to close this window and you can format your drive to NTFS, you can specify to change the bytes per sector 512 if you wish as seen HERE.
After assigning a drive letter, follow the steps below:
Click "Start" > click "Run" > type cmd in the text field and press "Enter."
In the command prompt, type format c:/FS: NTFS / a: 512 and press "Enter."
Please let us know if it did or did not help to solve your problem.
See you soon

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