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We have a Dell Precision 490 running Windows 2012 R2 fully patched and we are trying to load SQL 2012 w/SP2 and we are having issues. We can get through a good portion of the install and then it fails. We think we have it narrowed down to an issue with the BIOS reporting back a different sector size but we can't confirm that. <br />
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The error that we see in the event log is as follows;<br />
Cannot use file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER<wbr />\MSSQL\DAT<wbr />A\master.m<wbr />df' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.<br />
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We have been looking at the following tech info<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27865298/Master-mdf-was-originally-formatted-with-sector-size-4096-and-is-now-on-a-volume-with-sector-size-3072.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27865298/Master-mdf-was-originally-formatted-with-sector-size-4096-and-is-now-on-a-volume-with-sector-size-3072.html</a>
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We have a Dell Precision 490 running Windows 2012 R2 fully patched and we are trying to load SQL 2012 w/SP2 and we are having issues. We can get through a good portion of the install and then it fails. We think we have it narrowed down to an issue with the BIOS reporting back a different sector size but we can't confirm that. 

The error that we see in the event log is as follows;
Cannot use file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.

We have been looking at the following tech info
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/MS-SQL-Server/Q_27865298.html

SQL 2012 won't install on Dell Precision 490 running Windows 2012 RS

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