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8.2 Acronis Disk Editor
Acronis Disk Editor is a professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk: with it, you
can restore boot records, repair files and folder structure, find lost clusters, remove computer virus
code from a disk and much more. This program has much to offer to a computer novice as well. For
example, it can be used as an educational tool.
Working with Acronis Disk Editor requires a thorough understanding of the hard disk structure, file
systems, operating systems, partitioning schemes and principles of data storage organization.
Complete instructions concerning the organization of data storage, and the interaction of hard disks
with operating systems and applications, is not within the scope of these documentation.
When editing disks and volumes, you should be certain of your actions. You can easily violate a disk’s
information integrity by making data inaccessible. Also, your machine operability may be severely affected (the
operating system will stop loading, applications will stop running).
In this section
Starting work with Acronis Disk Editor .................................................... 73
Main window, menu and controls ........................................................... 74
Editing disks.............................................................................................. 74
View.......................................................................................................... 75
Search ....................................................................................................... 76
Usage examples ....................................................................................... 76
8.2.1 Starting work with Acronis Disk Editor
To start Acronis Disk Editor
1. Connect the console to the machine where Acronis Disk Director Agent is installed.
2. In the disk management area, right-click a disk or volume, and then click Edit. This will start
Acronis Disk Editor, providing access to its operations.
The difference between selecting the entire disk or selecting a volume is the following:
if you select the entire disk you will be able to view and edit data storage structures of the entire
disk – Partition table, File Allocation Table of all disk volumes, the root folder, data area.
selecting a volume lets you view and edit only data storage structures of this volume – File
Allocation Table, the root folder and data area of the volume.
8.2.2 Main window, menu and controls
The main window displays the numbers of disk and sector where the internal program cursor is
positioned.
The menu of Acronis Disk Editor contains the following items:
Disk – lets you browse properties of the selected disk.
Edit – lets you manipulate blocks of selected hard disk volumes; also lets you to save the content
of a disk sector after editing.
View – lets you select a view mode for more convenient data presentation. By default, the main
window of the program displays the selected volume or disk in the hexadecimal (Hex) mode.
Search – lets you search a volume (or a hard disk) for any line (or any sequence of characters)
and go to a certain disk sector according to its absolute offset.
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