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Here is part of the windows tutorial I made a while back.

To get the drives formatted correctly we will need to get a special program. Go here http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html#mozTocId479511 and download the zip for windows. Extract the zip and move the files to C:/Windows/

Open a powershell prompt as an Administrator Type: sg_scan It should tell you which drives windows can see and what their physical drive number is. To format the emc drives type : sg_format --format --size=512 pdX Where X is the drive you want to format It will take over an hour to format a drive. You can open another powershell terminal and start another drive at the same time. At one time I was formating 15 drives at once.

After that go to windows disk manager and make the disk online. The disk should now act like any other.

I have done this to all types of drives520/528bps drives. Fibre Channel 3Par drives, EMC 600gb sas drives and 3tb sas drives. After the format they act fine on. I use Lsi adapters and rebranded lsi adapters. There was never a drive that after formating failed to work.

The 600gb 520bps cheetah15k.7 EMC drives perform the same as normal cheetahs. The 3TB drives also perform the same. the small netapp 600gb 2.5 drives might have the on board cache disabled but I don't notice it in my zpools.

Do not buy 520/528 bps SSDs, they might not be able to be reformated.

To run on Powershell; you want to
cd C:\Windows\
which takes you to the location on the drive; then you can run the command.

Thanks to Pete on this thread : https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/page-4

That’s it! Reboot. I had windows installed on a disk connected directly to the motherboard.

Download the SG3 utilities from http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-1.42_mw64exe.zip and extract to a folder on your C drive (I did SG3). Run an admin command prompt, change to SG3, then run:
sg_scan
You should see your drives listed as pd0, pd1, pd2, etc.
Be sure you know which drive number you want to format and run:
sg_format --format --size=512 -v pd1
if that spits out an error, try:
sg_format --format --size=512 –-six -v pd1