Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation - User Guide - Manual (Page 71)

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Let us consider the disk editing in the As Hex view mode.
Selecting data
Any view mode lets you select blocks of disk sectors with the mouse or with the keyboard.
In the Hex view mode, use the following to select blocks:
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With a mouse. Place the mouse pointer at the necessary sector byte and drag it to create a block
selection around the outside of all the bytes that you want to select.
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With a keyboard. Place the cursor at the necessary sector byte. Press and hold the Shift key and
use the arrow keys (or Page Up and Page Down keys) to create a selection.
Hint: Pressing the End key while holding the Shift selects the entire disk sector. To select all the disk sectors,
press Ctrl+A.
Editing disk data
Point the cursor to the block that you need to edit in the hexadecimal or character area in the main
window. Then, enter the required value. In other view modes, you should edit values in the
appropriate fields.
Use the Undo menu item to discard the last one or more changes. Undo all discards all the changes
you made.
Saving your changes
The changes you made will not be applied to the given disk sector immediately. Be sure to click Save
sector for changes to take effect.
Attention: After saving changes you will not be able to undo them.
If you do not save your changes, you effectively reject them. If you have made changes in a hard disk
sector and decide to exit the editor without saving them, you will see a warning prompting you to
save your changes.
Writing a block to a file
Not available under Linux-based bootable media
The Write to file menu item lets you to save the selected block to a file.
It is a good practice to save the selected blocks before you begin to edit them. This will help you to
revert changes made to the given hard disk sectors and to restore the data.
To save a disk sector block to a file
1. Select the block that you need to save, and then click Write to file.
2. In the Write to file window, click Browse and specify the path and file name.
3. Click OK to save the file.
Tip: You can create a selection right in the Write to file window: in the Size filed, specify the the number of
bytes that will be selected from the current cursor position.
Reading a block from a file
Not available under Linux-based bootable media