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RAID 1 Mirror Error with Two Western Digital 500GB Drives

Jul 7, 2012 4:47PM PDT

I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed on a Western Digital 500GB drive (WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0) that was partitioned automatically by Windows as 100MB System Reserved and 465.66GB drive C. There is also an unallocated second Western Digital 500GB drive (WD5000BPVT-22HXZT1) that I want to use for RAID 1 to mirror the first drive but I get an error message stating "All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid." I uninstalled Windows patch KB-982018 but I still get the same error message. Could you please let me know how to resolve this? Thanks.

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Re: sector size
Jul 7, 2012 5:35PM PDT

Does the program that gives this error message offer you the opportunity to show and change that sector size?

Kees

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RAID 1 Mirror Error with Two Western Digital 500GB Drives
Jul 7, 2012 11:09PM PDT

I use "Add Mirror" in Disk Management feature of Windows 7 to do RAID 1 and it does not show any options to change the sector size.