AOMEI Backupper doen't see my disk
I have a Win7 system, and I attached a USB hard disk to it. The drive appeared as drive "G". When I try to do a clone, I am allowed to choose my boot drive "C" as a source, but drive "G" never appears as a possible destination. Backupper doesn't even appear to be aware of my backup disk. Why not? How do I get it to see it? It is formatted identically to my boot drive.
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Is it an USB 3 port? Try another port.
Dou you start Aomei from within a running Win7 or from bootable media?
Is the drive also invisible in the backup option instead of clone?
Evidently (thank you, AOMEI support) Backupper doesn't work at all with 4096 bytes/sector drives, and my backup drive is such a disk. My old internal C disk appears to be compliant. A little funny, in that I thought all modern disks were 4096.
I gather that bytes/sector is a hardware issue, and you can't change that on a disk by reformatting.
OK, so where do I get a Backupper-compliant SATA disk? What is the preferred bytes/sector for Backupper? When I buy disks, no one is advertising bytes/sector.
AOMEI Backupper supports drives with 512 bytes per sector.
OK, where do I find SATA drives with 512 bytes/sector?
Well, you could ask your hard drive provider about it.
I think most drives are 512 or 4096 emulated as 512. I never came across a pure 4096 drive yet. Maybe you should buy a smaller driver of max 1 TB?
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-solutions/w/sql_solutions/12102.performance-comparison-between-4k-and-512e-hard-drives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
4K drives seem to have a 4Kn logo of advanced format...