User Guide

Or to use Disk Æ Open menu to select a partition in the Open dialog window (a
partition, not a disk) which bootsector you need. In this case DiskEditor will
position on the 1
st
sector of that partition – its bootsector.
If you are in the view as Partition table mode, you can find a bootsector of
any partition simply clicking
Enter button to the left of partition record.
Keeping in mind that all hard disk sectors have been zeroed with the help of
program Acronis ProofEraser, if you want to look at a hard disk partition
bootsector in the view as FAT32 bootsector mode before this partition is for-
matted, you would, see some random data without any relation to actual
partition characteristics.
Let us assume you positioned DiskEditor on a partition bootsector and selected
the view as FAT32 bootsector mode. In this case you will see a picture similar to
that shown below; actual data entirely depends on your hard disk).
Bootsector mode
The main window in the view as bootsector mode has many fields. Not all
fields are of equal importance: file systems are created and developed, grow
old, or become obsolete. Therefore some fields used earlier may become
obsolete in the future. The most important fields are:
• OEM ID – the line formed at partition formatting;
•
Sector size – sector size in bytes;
•
Sector per cluster – the number of sectors per cluster;
•
Reserved sectors – the number of sectors occupied by the loader and
reserved;
•
FAT copies – the number of FAT copies; theoretically a disk can
contain up to 4 FAT copies, but usually there are 2;
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