Operation Manual

Working with Acronis Disk Editor

In this section of the guide, all examples of Acronis Disk Editor’s main window view

modes are given for demonstration purposes.

The main menu of Acronis Disk Editor contains the following items:

• Disk – allows you to browse properties of a disk being edited

• Edit – allows you to manipulate blocks of selected hard disk partitions; also

allows you to save contents of a disk sector after editing

• View – allows you to select a view mode for more convenient presentation of

data

• Search – allows you to search a partition (or a hard disk) for any line (or any

sequence of characters) and go to a certain disk sector according to its

absolute offset

• Help – allows you to get help concerning the editor window or about the

program’s developer and version

6.4 Edit Hard Disks

The Edit menu of the Acronis Disk Editor main window allows you to 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 the View menu). You can

manipulate data blocks using Edit menu in the view as hex mode.

Edit menu

Any view mode allows you to select blocks with the help of the mouse by clicking

and holding its left button, or with the help of the keyboard, advancing the

window with

Shift key pressed.

When viewing in hex mode, simply changing data in the hexadecimal or

character area in the main window — or in any fields of other view modes — will

not change the given disk sector. To execute the changes, you must save them

first. After creating changes, you will see that the Save sector item in Edit menu