Acronis DiskEditor

Edit hard disk and its partition data manually

Included into value priced Acronis PowerUtilities 2003

Quite often problems can arise with hard disk drives that cannot be solved without a technically advanced disk editor. Such problems include: back up, copying, and/or recovery important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack. Acronis DiskEditor 6.0 with a capability of booting up from a diskette, and now CD and DVD, irrespective of any operating system may become only means that can help.

Acronis DiskEditor 6.0 allows to back up and restore critical hard drive sectors, edit contents of hard disk sectors, representing them in the most convenient way. It has simple and effective user interface by means of disk navigation and searching, saving sectors contents to files and reading them from files.

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Key features

• Allows to edit hard disk and it's partitions
• Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394 hard disk drives.
• Works from a bootable media if PC failed to boot.
• Hexadecimal mode of hard disk partition contents viewing as DiskEditor's universal operating mode.
• Supports additional viewing modes that allow to work effectively with all disk data storage structures like Partition tables, FAT and NTFS partition bootsectors, root and other FAT folders.
• Pending execution: first, you edit sector contents and then make a decision about saving disk changes or discarding them.
• Multiwindow operating mode: an opportunity of working with contents of one or several disk sectors in different windows.
• Unified Windows XP-styled graphic user interface with full mouse support.

Hard disk editing

• Supports a long list of encodings that allow to interpret contents of hard disk sectors correctly.
• Automatic transitions from Partition tables to necessary disk partitions.
• Transition to necessary disk sectors according to their absolute numbers.
• Searches disks for char or hexadecimal lines according considering the encoding selected.
• Works with information blocks of disk sectors.
• Saves selected blocks to files and reads an information from files and its inserting to disk sectors.
• Provides detailed information about computer's hard disks and their partitions.

Supported operating systems:

After installation Acronis DiskEditor 6.0 lets you create a bootable floppy diskette, or a CD-R / CD-RW to work on any personal computer with or without an operating system.

System requirements

PLEASE NOTE: Using the Acronis DiskEditor 6.0 requires advanced knowledge of partition and file system structure.