HARD drive external - 4096 bytes of the sector support size / change

We have a number of external hard drives Toshiba, which are almost redundant.
The sector size, 4096 bytes, is not supported by Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 7 or less.
Only in 2012 Server and Windows 8.

When I say not taken in charge, I want to say not supported for backup.
The item "System State" backup will not work with this type of disc is connected to the system.

My question is this:

Is there a way to get around this?

Western Digital provides a tool to format drives with a sector size different Windows 7 / 2008 R2 recognizes and allows a backup of the system successfully State. The tool is WD Quick Format Tool. Is there an equivalent of Toshiba?

Thank you

Well, since Vista (SP2), the size of sector 4 k is OS supported, but initially, Windows XP as well as Vista (SP1) taken in charge only size of 512 byte sector.

It seems that in the past provided Toshiba a tool called alignment tool from Toshiba to Advanced Format hard drives (HDD) but this isn t available more as mentioned on this page
http://Toshiba.SEMICON-storage.com/us/product/storage-products/trends-technology/advanced-format.html

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