1. Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd)

2. Enter the command:

fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <drive letter>:

3. In the output you will find the value for "Bytes Per Physical Sector", which can be one of the following:

512 - for Legacy 512 native drives
4096 - for Advanced Format (AF) drives
<Not Supported> - if the hardware or driver does not support the IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY control code
 

Notes:

• The hotfix from Microsoft KB982018 may be required.
•  Support for Advanced Format disks relies on the disk reporting itself as having 4KB physical sectors, and relies on the Storage Driver reporting the physical sector size.

 External reference:

An update that improves the compatibility of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Advanced Format Disks is available, see the following article.