When an object is locked, Text/hexadecimal Editor has an exclusive access to it, and no other programs or Windows can make any changes on it. Text/hexadecimal Editor itself always locks the object itself before writing anything on the disk and then unlocks it. But sometimes locking/unlocking may take quite a lot of time, up to several seconds. That is why sometimes it is a good practice to lock an object while editing it in Text/hexadecimal Editor . This can be done by selecting Lock on the Tools menu.

When considering locking an object in Text/hexadecimal Editor , keep in mind the following:

• Starting from Windows 7, it is impossible to change data if it resides on a logical disk without locking the disk. If the data is on a place outside of any logical disk (on an unmounted partition or empty space), such lock is not necessary. Windows Vista, XP, or below do not have such restrictions.

• The Lock command tries to lock all logical disks on which the object being edited is placed. For a hard drive, those are all its logical disks, for a file that is a logical disk where it resides. And if a RAID is created from logical disks and a file is opened on that RAID, Text/hexadecimal Editor blocks all logical disks on which the file resides.

Moreover:

• If a logical disk is opened in Text/hexadecimal Editor , the Lock command locks the disk if there is no files opened by some other programs.

• If a hard drive is opened in Text/hexadecimal Editor , the Lock command locks the drive if all its logical disks can be locked. That may cause problems is one of the logical disks is a system one.

To view/edit an object,

1	Right-click the object and select View/Edit on the shortcut menu

>	A Viewer/Editor panel will appear

Restorer Ultimate Text/Hexadecimal editor

Panel view options

You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable.

To enable/disable:

Sector number	Select/clear Sectors on the View menu
Binary data	Select/clear BYTES on the View menu
ANSI data	Select/clear ANSI on the View menu or click the ANSI button
OEM data	Select/clear OEMr on the View menu or click the OEM button
UNICODE data	Select/clear UNICODE on the View menu or click the UNICODE button
UNICODE+ data	Select/clear UNICODE+ on the View menu or click the UNICODE+ button
Toolbar	Select/clear Toolbar on the View menu
Status bar	Select/clear Status bar on the View menu
Find Results View	Select/clear Find Results View on the View menu

2	View the information and make necessary changes

Click the Save Changes button if you want to save changes.

Other ways to save changes

Viewing

There are up to four tabs showing the data in different representations. Actual number of tabs depends on the object and property being viewed/edited.

Std	Exact attribute data. If the attribute is compressed, Restorer Ultimate decompresses it prior to showing.
Unlimited	Exact attribute data + free space of last cluster. If the attribute is compressed, Restorer Ultimate decompresses it prior to showing.
Direct	Actual data written on the disk. If the attribute is not compressed, it coincides with the Std representation.
Allocation	Resident part of the attribute.

You may view data in 4 various code pages: ANSI/OEM/UNICODE/UNICODE+ by switching on/off the respective code pages in the Code pages buttons or select the appropriate code pages on the View menu.

You may see which file is written on a particular sector. See Files and Sectors for details.

Navigating

Text/hexadecimal Editor gives you various ways to navigate into an object. See the Navigating through an Object for more details.

Filling an area with a pattern

To fill an area with a pattern, select Fill on the Edit menu, and specify the pattern and area on the Fill dialog box.

Fill dialog box

Fill options

Fill pattern
HEX	Field for the pattern to fill the area in the hexadecimal representation
ANSI	Field for the pattern to fill the area in the ANSI encoding
OEM	Field for the pattern to fill the area in the OEM encoding
UNICODE	Field for the pattern to fill the area in the UNICODE encoding
Fill range
From (hex)	Field for the start position of the area to fill with the pattern
To (hex)	Field for the end position of the area to fill with the pattern

3	Click the Save Changes button to save the changes

>	Viewer/Editor will save the changes on the object

YOU MUST BE ABSOLUTELY SURE OF WHAT AND WHERE YOU ARE WRITING!

Or you may completely lose all your data.

Selecting and saving an area in the Viewer/Editor

You may select an area in the Viewer/Editor panel and save it as a file.

To select and save an area in the Viewer/Editor panel ,

1	Right-click the beginning of the selection and select Select From on the shortcut menu

2	Right-click the end of the selection and select Select To on the shortcut menu

Other ways to select an area

If you need to select an entire object, select Select All on the Tools menu or click the Ctrl+A key

Select dialog box

3	Select an appropriate item in the Tools menu to save the data in a required format and specify its file name

Select:

Save to Binary File...	to save the data in the binary format (default extension is .bin )
Save to Hexadecimal File	to save the data in the binary format (default extension is .hex )

on the Tools menu.

If a remote computer is connected for Data Recovery over Network , the Save as... dialog box will appear when you select a place to save the data. You may save it to the local or remote computer.

>	Viewer/Editor will save the data in the file

Loading data from an external file

You may load a data from a file and overwrite an area of the object opened in the Viewer/Editor panel.

To load binary data from a file and overwrite an area of the object opened in the Viewer/Editor panel ,

1	Select an area to overwrite and select Load from File... on the Tools menu

If a remote computer is connected for Data Recovery over Network , the Open as Binary File dialog box will appear when you select a place to open the data file from. You may open it from the local or remote computer.

2	Select the necessary file and load the data.

>	The area in the Viewer/Editor will be overwritten with the new data.

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