Windows 10: MS Says AF 512e HDD's Are Not Supported in Win10?

According to Microsoft Knowledge Bulletin at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2510009
Advanced Format 512e (512b emulation layer on top of 4k sector size) HDD's are not supported in Win10. How is that possible. It is the most common format for current generation large capacity drives. The only alternatives are 512n (512b logical and physical), which is legacy old and doesn't seem to go above about 4TB's, and 4Kn (4k logical and physical) which is seen mostly as an option on enterprise drives and still pretty uncommon. Any ideas?

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HDD to SDD OS transfer

I am trying to clone (or even image) my 1TB-HDD to a Kingston 120GB-SDD. Space is not issue as I'm only using 70GB on the HDD. My problem is sector size. My HDD sectors are 512 (not 512e) and the SDD sectors are 4096. I'm also unable to use my system image/backup
because it is on a HDD with the same sector size (512). I've tried a number of cloning programs, including Macrium Reflect, with no success. Is there a way around this?

 

Graphics drivers (maybe) and updates ruin everything

Maybe if MS didn't force buggy af updates.

 

While this is an older article it appears this transition has been on the board for years. You likely have seen articles like this, I hadn't until I saw your post and wanted more info.

Transition to Advanced Format 4K Sector Hard Drives|Seagate

 

That Seagate page and others on their site are screwed up, their popup about signing up covers quite a bit of the information making it essentially useless.

 

Interesting. Sounds like you weren't provided an x to Hide form, I was. I'm using Chrome.

 

I mostly use Firefox, if there is an X for closing it is hiding behind their top banner. It does go into hiding once I get about halfway down the page.

 

No problem seeing the X here with Firefox, try Ctrl + mousewheel and shrink it a bit get the X then.
Interesting info though and something I wasn't aware had changed.