New style hard drives and Windows XP

According to this article, new style hard drives will cause problems for XP due to sector size
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/why-new-hard-disks-might-not-be-much-fun-for -xp-users.ars

That is correct. However, WD being the first to use these large sectors, has included a utility to adress the problem with the LBA 63 sector, which is no longer adressable with the 4096 byte sectors. I have not yet seen reports on reliability and stability with this utility.

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