Operation Manual

8.8.1.5 Disk Editor (read-only mode)

Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a

data destruction method on a hard disk or partition. To view the state of your cleaned up disks or

partitions, click the Tools & Utilities tab. Then click the View current state of your disks link and

choose the partition whose cleaning results you wish to view. This opens an integrated Acronis Disk

Editor (in read-only mode).

Different algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruction. Thus the picture you might

see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction method. But what you actually see are

disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols.

Hard disk content search

The Search menu allows you to search a hard disk for a line and to go to a disk sector according to its

absolute offset.

Selecting the Search item in the same menu will give you access to functions of searching lines in the

disk being edited. (You can do the same by pressing the Ctrl + F key combination.) Search parameters

are set in the Search dialog window.

To begin searching:

 A search line can be set both as a char (Text field), and numeric (hexadecimal) value (Hex field).

When you type text in the Text field, it will be automatically converted to hexadecimal value in

the Hex field, and vice versa.

 Check the Case sensitive parameter to consider a letter case. If you selected a search mode

without letter case matching, not only the case but also elements of the above characters will be

ignored for Roman character sets.

 Check the Search at sector offset parameter to search for a given line at a given offset inside the

sector

 Click OK to begin searching. After the search process is finished, the current position will be

moved to where a line was found, or will remain the same if no lines were found. You can search

for the next line from the current position by selecting the Search again item in the Search menu

or by pressing the F3 key.