Supported Sector Sizes

Contemporary hard drives and SSDs ship with a 4096-byte physical sector size. Most also support the 512-byte logical sector size. (These drives are often labeled 512e for "512 Byte Sector Size Emulation".) ShadowProtect supports backing up both 4096- and 512-byte logical sector sizes.

In the unusual situation of restoring a partition/volume from one logical sector size to another:

• 512 bytes per logical sector -> 4096 bytes per logical sector (and the destination does not support 512e)
• 4096 bytes per logical sector -> 512 bytes per logical sector

ShadowProtect will issue an error message during the restore if it encounters a mis-matched sector size.