Can an Advanced Format drive be installed in a Time Capsule

I have aTime Capsule 1TB and was interested in upgrading the hard drive. I saw that there are 4TB drives available that are "Advanced Format" Would these drives be able to be used in Time Capsule? Is there any performance issues known? For example would I be able to format the drive as one large partition using the "full drive" or would it be limited to significantly less (like only 3TB).
According to Western Digital (http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5655/~/how-to-install-a-wd-advan ced-format-drive-on-a-non-windows-operating-system):
"Mac OSX:
Mac OSX version 10.4 onwards (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) can use the GUID Partitioning Table scheme (GPT) which will align an Advanced Format drive correctly. Mac OS versions using Apple Partition Manager (APM) will not align partitions correctly and will not provide optimum performance."
When you format a drive using the Time Capsule reset/reformat utility, does it format the drive using GPT or APM? I think that might answer my question. Then again, maybe it won't.
Thank you for your help.

I do not know about 4TB drives, having never tested one.. but 3TB advanced format is fine. So my guess would be the 4TB would work.. but Apple often set limitations in their firmware.. and since 3TB is the largest they release in any TC.. that tends to be the limit they set.
There is also no guarantee that the drive will spin down.. although spinning up and down every minute can also happen and of course is much worse issue.
What model TC are you trying to do this to?
Format of the drive is GPT.
Hey.. after much googling.. doing your work for you.. I found the last post here.. the guy mentions the sata in the TC works
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3727070?start=0&tstart=0
You will probably need to use 7.6.1 firmware. There are certainly issues on older models with larger drives.. but I managed to shoehorn a 3TB into a Gen 2 and it works with one proviso.. spin down is flakey.. some times yes and sometimes no.. still the actual consumption of a drive spinning is only 2-3W now.
My solution would be.. to connect your internal sata in the TC to esata port.. or even just an extension cable.. a nice power plus data one.. and buy 2TB drives.. which are still better value.. TB/$$ and then you can use any number of drives in sequence.. no hot swap of course. But it is easy to off and on the TC.. then you can have a disk for swapping to store backups offsite.
I should think if you buy an older newertech (I love the paradox) box which fits under the TC you can do a really neat combined unit.

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Did the HP Recovery Discs actually fail to install??? Does the recovered install fail to boot completely or correctly. Or does the recovered install not only have isues with Windows update and/or other software???
If the recovery completes and you can enter Windows please try to use ABR Beta With Windows 7 Support to backup the installed HP OEM SLP key and HP OEM SLP certificate. Once you have these, save the complete ABR folder to an external location, like a USB stick. Next, install Windows 7 SP1 from your fresh ISO. Do not enter a product key when requested and do not allow Windows to try to activate the computer. Now, restore the key and certificate to your fresh Windows 7 SP1 install. Verify that Windows is activated. Post back and let us know if this succeeded or failed
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Hello all, I have been searching everywhere for this, I think I found it once before, but lost it when I was moving. I am using a advanced format drive which means I need the 2mb boot partition labelled ef02.
The problem I am having is when it comes to installing grub I was sure that you have to add some sort of line for it to use the ef02 partition.

An Advanced Format drive is one that uses physical sectors that are 4096 bytes in size, rather than the older standard of 512 bytes. Most (in fact, all, the last I heard) such drives present the illusion of using 512-byte sectors for compatibility purposes, though.
The gdisk partition type code of EF02 refers to a BIOS Boot Partition, which holds boot loader code for GRUB on disks that are partitioned using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning system. Note that this partition is only necessary when using GRUB on a BIOS-booted GPT disk. If you've got an MBR disk or if you're booting in EFI mode, you don't need this partition.
These two issues are entirely unrelated. It's possible to use MBR (which has no equivalent to GPT's BIOS Boot Partition) on an Advanced Format disk, and it's possible to use a BIOS Boot Partition on a disk that's not an Advanced Format model.
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Backup and Restore image fails 3TB Advanced Format Drive Windows 7-32 SP1

Windows native backp fails to create an System Image, or a Complete PC Backup.
This occurs in Windows 7, 64 bit Professional, Windows 7, 32bit Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, 32 bit. It occurs in 6 different computers I've tried. All the backup drives are 3TB. I have tried Seagte USB and Hitachi USB drives. 4 of them. The Windows
7 Ultimate, 32bit machine has SP1. All operating systems are using the current Service Packs, and all of the MS Updates including all of the recommended harware drivers. All of the systems are using the latest BIOS, firmware and OEM drivers as well.
It looks like the issue may be causes by a deficiency in Windows related to the Advanced Format drive spec. All of the computers that qualified had the AF hotfix applied; Advanced Format Drives 512e 4k, Vista
and 2008 - KB2470478, Windows 7, and 2008 R2 KB982018
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The Backup Failed.
Error message: One of the backup files could not be created. (0x8078002A)
The request could not be perfomed because of an I/O error. (0x8007045D)
This deficiency seems to apply across the board to different hardware manufacturers of external hard drives.
From what I have heard, Western Digital may have a format utility that addresses this issue, but only for WD drives.
Help.

Hi David,
Did you have found any error message？
Check if all the files have been created on the hard drive.
Check the Volume shadow copy service in services window. To check follow these steps:
i.
Click Start and type services.msc in the search box
ii.
Search for the Volume shadow copy service
Make sure the start- up type is automatic. Steps to set the services to automatic
i.
Search for the service
ii.
Right click on the service
iii.
If the service is stopped then Start the service
iv.
Select Properties
v.
And in the Start-up type select Automatic
This is the most definitive answer I can find so am taking this as the answer.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsbackup/thread/889b01be-d333-4fc7-b005-e12b7b236ad7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/444e8ea2-6417-45dc-83d4-f5ae45bbaa02
Thanks,
Jeff
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