Microscope for the hard disk

If you want to look at how to arrange something in the real world, we take and examine the object with a microscope. What to do if you want to look at the internal computer device such as a hard disk? In the microscope we see is not quite what you would like. But applying the program DiskExplorer (Shareware, 69USD) from the company Runtime Software the hard disk will appear before our eyes in all its glory.

The tool is designed for studies of disks and partitions with NTFS and FAT file system, and is able to operate as running any Windows-based system and a boot disk. It allows you to view the contents of a disc in a variety of modes and options for submission. You can view the data file allocation table (MFT), boot record, the partition table. All this data can be viewed in plain text, hexadecimal (hex), as indices into the file table. Of course, you can and view the files themselves, including in their own programs to extract and store any information from the disk. Of the specific features include the identification of specific clusters on the disk, which is placed in the specified file, or vice versa, will tell you which file in the specified cluster.

There is an interesting creation of a virtual disk mode, when the program tries to reconstruct the boot record and file table in memory, and, if possible, and then use it to retrieve data drive. You can also do a full disk image in IMG format for subsequent use of other, more powerful recovery tools, but without physical access to the faulty hard drive.

For the advanced users has a direct mode of operation with a disk that allows you to edit and write data to a disc directly. The utility will be an excellent complement to a more advanced means of recovery, and eliminating the need for many simple cases without special programs, since it can also extract files and entire directories from a damaged disc, even if it does not see the operating system.