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    If I understand correctly, a drive (mass storage device) has physical and logical sectors. Files have no sectors, and I guess you mean that the image is a file. Commented Feb 13, 2020 at 16:08
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    AFAIK dd doesn't really care about sectors, and there is no sector information in an IMG file. Sectors are a hardware thing these days. The sector size would only change how you compute a file offset from a sector index... Commented Feb 13, 2020 at 16:13