Frequently asked questions about Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0

What is Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 intended for?

Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 is intended for editing contents of hard disk sectors. If the user is skilled enough, he/she can make backup copies, recover bootsectors and other important data areas of a hard disk, search and extract information occasionally removed or lost due to failures, restore a computer's up state after destructive viruses' influence, and perform a lot of other operations.

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Who needs Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0?

Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 being a professional hard disk editor is, first of all, intended for experienced users familiar with information storage structure of hard disks.

Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 can be used in educational purposes: different view modes provide extremely evident representation of data storage structures of hard disks.

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Why automatic hard disk utilities are not enough?

In many cases automatic utilities are not enough, and even cannot be used. For example, in case of damage of important hard disk areas by boot viruses or viruses that damage hard disks sectorwise. Such damage often results in impossibility of booting up a PC. Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 may become the only way out in this situation with its independent mode of booting from a diskette or CD-ROM. To simplify the task of restoration we recommend you to have backup copies of important hard disk areas that you can also create with Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 at hand.

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What is the main advantage of Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0?

The main advantage of Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 is the opportunity of solving tasks that are unsolvable for automatic utilities. Additional advantages of our product include the following:
— Ability to work in both universal hexadecimal mode of data representation, and in special modes for editing Partition tables, FAT 16/32 and NTFS bootsectors, and folders. That is special operating modes are provided for many disk data storage structures.
— Simple navigation.

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What operating systems does Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 work under?

The answer to this question should be divided into two parts.
1. Installation program can be run under Windows from the compact disc. Having run it you can choose either to load Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 directly from the compact disc, or to create a bootable diskette for it.
2. If you create a bootable diskette, Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 will not require any operating system to run.

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Disks of what capacity does Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 support?

In the mode of operating under Windows Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 works with disks supported by your version of Windows. In case of independent work from a bootable diskette or CD-ROM Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 will work properly with disks of any capacity supported by your computer's BIOS.

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Does Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 work under Windows XP?

Yes, Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 is fully compatible with Windows XP.

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It is possible to unintentionally damage data on a hard disk during training to work with Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0?

The developers tried their best to reduce the probability of accidental damages of hard disk data. Safety of work with Acronis® Disk Editor 6.0 consists in that all changes of hard disk sectors contents are performed in computer memory. Only then the user decides whether to save changes made to the hard disk.

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