User`s guide

The list of encodings is used to interpret the hard disk sector content. Selecting the necessary

encoding, will allow you to view the sector's content correctly interpreted in the right part of

program’s main window in the Hex mode.

8.3.3 Editing disks

The Edit menu lets you access the main operations with blocks of given hard disk sectors. You can

edit hard disk data directly in the fields of any view mode — see View (p. 74).

Let us consider the disk editing in the As Hex view mode.

Selecting data

Any view mode lets you select blocks of disk sectors with the mouse or with the keyboard.

In the Hex view mode, use the following to select blocks:

 With a mouse. Place the mouse pointer at the necessary sector byte and drag it to create a block

selection around the outside of all the bytes that you want to select.

 With a keyboard. Place the cursor at the necessary sector byte. Press and hold the Shift key and

use the arrow keys (or Page Up and Page Down keys) to create a selection.

Hint: Pressing the End key while holding the Shift selects the entire disk sector. To select all the disk sectors,

press Ctrl+A.

Editing disk data

Point the cursor to the block that you need to edit in the hexadecimal or character area in the main

window. Then, enter the required value. In other view modes, you should edit values in the

appropriate fields.

Use the Undo menu item to discard the last one or more changes. Undo all discards all the changes

you made.

Saving your changes

The changes you made will not be applied to the given disk sector immediately. Be sure to click Save

sector for changes to take effect.

Attention: After saving changes you will not be able to undo them.

If you do not save your changes, you effectively reject them. If you have made changes in a hard disk

sector and decide to exit the editor without saving them, you will see a warning prompting you to

save your changes.

Writing a block to a file

Not available under Linux-based bootable media

The Write to file menu item lets you to save the selected block to a file.

It is a good practice to save the selected blocks before you begin to edit them. This will help you to

revert changes made to the given hard disk sectors and to restore the data.

To save a disk sector block to a file

1. Select the block that you need to save, and then click Write to file.