Edit Sectors

You can view and edit ANY sectors on your hard disk by Partition Table Doctor. Press "Ctrl+F1" key or select "Edit Sector" on menu "Sector". The "Edit sector" window will be displayed. The first sector of current partition will be displayed by default.

To view other sectors, just set the position of the sectors. Use mouse to move cursor to "Cylinder" or "Head" or "Sector" or "Absolute" field then enter a value. The sector pointed by the cylinder, head and sector will be displayed immediately. Using "Page Up" or "Page Down" keys, you can view other sectors forth and back.

If you want to edit sector, press "Insert" key or use mouse to hit any position on current sector, then enter HEX value. "Edit sector" doesn"t directly edit sector on hard disk (using memory instead). If you want to save modification on sector immediately, press "Ctrl+H" key or select "Save Sector" to save modification on sector. Press "Esc" key or use mouse to move cursor to "Cylinder" or "Head" or "Sector" or "Absolute" field or buttons on "Edit sector" window to leave "Edit". If modification has occurred on current sector, the "Save to sector" dialog will be displayed, you can choose "Yes" or "No".

In addition, you can save some of the sectors started from current sector into a file. Enter the start absolute sector, the count, and the file name. Besides, you can restore sectors from file, just enter the start absolute sector, the count, and the file name.

For securely erasing (shredding) data, and also simply for filling disk sectors with zero bytes, just enter start absolute sector and count. This function can erase all data on one hard disk. More information see Fill Sectors.

Note: If you destroy some sectors and cannot access the partition, we recommend that you can use professional data recovery software, such as Data Recovery Wizard to recover files.