Compliments on a very useful tool.
I have used hex editors since the days of DOS - yours is very slick.
I have a question about the Extras -> Open Disk mode:
It appears you do not allow selected sectors to be saved as raw binary.
I did a forum search and found the following thread from 2008
http://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=239#p699
Which has the following statement as the last post:
"Save to file saves the entire file (disk/RAM), not only a portion. That is intentional."
Saving blocks of raw sectors from the physical disk (outside the defined partitions) would be very helpful.
I wanted to test some hidden code stored in these locations to see if it was part of a RootKit/BootKit infection.
Several utilities exist to dump track zero - but a more flexible solution would be better.
Is there some technical reason the "Select Block + Save As" combination can not just save the raw sectors to a file?
Doug Collins - Computer Support Engineer
Saving Sectors
Re: Saving Sectors
What you can do is use the clipboard. Select, Copy, Paste into new file, save.DougCuk wrote: Saving blocks of raw sectors from the physical disk (outside the defined partitions) would be very helpful.
[...]Is there some technical reason the "Select Block + Save As" combination can not just save the raw sectors to a file?
But this is limited by the amount of free working memory (RAM).
There are no technical reasons such a feature doesnt exist yet, except lack of time currently. There are plans to add a feature to save selected portions of a file (or a disk which is treated like a file) to another file.