User Guide

Chapter 2. Working with Acronis
DiskEditor
2.1 Partition or Disk Selection
Working with the Acronis DiskEditor program begins with the Open dialog
window that users see after clicking the Acronis DiskEditor line in the pro-
gram group of Programs desktop start menu.
The window of partition or disk selection
By default the program automatically marks the first hard disk for working.
But you may select any other disk or individual partition – click the left
mouse button on a corresponding rectangle.
The difference between selecting the entire disk or a partition only is the followin
g
: if
you select the entire disk you will be able to view and edit data stora
g
e structures of
the entire disk – Partition table, File Allocation Table of all disk partitions, the root
folder, data area. If you select a partition only, you will be able to view and edit only
data storage structures of this partition – File Allocation Table, the root folder and
data area of the selected partition.
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