@unknownuser said:
Al,
Curious what error message you get when trying to save an image. (is it something like "fails to recognise the drive")
I ask because I have a 1tb Seagate Goflex ext. drive I purchased of October 2011 to which I have no problem with saving a Win7 drive image.
Charlie
The error is something like "I/O error while writing to drive"
You can see if the drive i unsupportable by typing in:
Fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo F:
(replacing F: with the drive letter)
It is the Bytes per Physical in bold below which is the problem. "Not Supported" means that the drive does not report the number of bytes to Windows, so Windows does not know that it is not a 512 byte drive.
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x7420b59d20b566b0
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000002baa0a1f
Total Clusters : 0x000000002baa0a1f
Free Clusters : 0x000000002b78d793
Total Reserved : 0x00000000000df800
Bytes Per Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Physical Sector : <Not Supported> <-------
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 4096
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 1
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000d00000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000015d5050f
Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000c0100
Mft Zone End : 0x00000000000cc900
RM Identifier: 230A744D-C625-11E0-9ECD-101F740C3A98