Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Working with Acronis Disk Editor 

 

 

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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 

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. 

 

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