Back in the latter part of ‘09, hard disk manufacturers introduced the new 4096 byte sector to replace the older style 512 byte sector that’s been around forever.
This is a bit more techie than most folks want to delve into, but it’s pretty important that you at least have a passing familiarity with how disk drives work.
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~Eric