Macrium Reflect Incompatible Disk Selected

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Hello,

It doesn’t matter what disk, partition or USB I choose the same error appears. I don’t know what could be the problem with Macrium or what is causing this error. The reinstall is not helping at all and is there an expert who can help me please to fix this error ?

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Macrium Reflect

Incompatible disk selected

The target disk has an incompatible sector size for this operation. Please choose a different disk.

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Macrium Reflect Incompatible Disk Selected

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If you are cloning your drive and this error always appears, it means that the target drive has a different sector size with the source. To make the cloning successful, both the source and the target drive should have the same sector size. For example, the source drive is using 512 or 512e sector size and the target drive is using 4096 sector size, the cloning of the drive will not be possible.

If the source drive is using 4096 sector size and the target drive is using 512 or 512e sector size, here cloning or restoring is possible. Check the table below for compatible disks.

To check the sector size of your drive, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools then select System Information. In System Information window under System Summary, expand Components, Storage then select Disks under Storage. You will see your drive’s sector size indicated in Bytes/Sector. My Samsung hard drive is using 512 sector size. See image.

If the sector size of the target drive differs from your source drive, you can still fix it by re-partitioning the target drive. You can use Partition Magic to re-partition the target drive. When re-partitioning the target drive, set the same sector size as with the source drive so both drives will be compatible and cloning can be successful.

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