DiskSpy Free Edition

DiskSpy - access your hard disk on a physical level and view or edit areas usually hidden from you.
With DiskSpy Free Edition you will be able to build a bootable program floppy disk with this software package by doing the following: extract the files of the package into a directory of your choice and use INSTALL.EXE to create a bootable floppy disk.

Insert the floppy disk or CD with the program on it into a bootable drive and restart the computer. The program will then be loaded from floppy disk automatically.

DiskSpy - access your hard disk on a physical level and view or edit areas usually hidden from you.

DiskSpy enables you to view every sector of any installed hard disk drive. It is irrelevant if these sectors are bootsectors, partition tables, file system entries or simple data files.

Also, areas protected by the operating system are accessible, since DiskSpy is completely operating-system-independent.

The Free Edition of DiskSpy allows to display every sector of any installed IDE harddisk. Various display modes allow a better overview of the saved data, e.g. a FAT table can easily be read in the doubleword view, where the file sizes, timestamp of last changes and the corresponding sector numbers are displayed.

You also can switch the ASCII display to a full 8-bit-display, which shows all control characters as well as the extended ASCII characters in plain text. These characters are usually displayed as a dot to minimize distractions when reading the sector.

Besides the always visible short info DiskSpy can show extended information about the installed hard disk drives. Besides information like capacity, heads, sectors and cylinders it shows available DMA, UltraDMA and PIO modes also cache size and serial numbers of a hard disk.

Main features of DiskSpy:

Display of every sector of any installed hard disk drives

Search for ASCII character strings

Vertical and horizontal scrolling

Byte-, word- and doubleword-views

7- and 8-bit-view on the ASCII display

Detailled display of capabilities of the installed hard disk drives


Requirements of DiskSpy:

PC 486 or higher, 4 MB RAM, VGA

bootable floppy drive or CD-ROM

IDE harddisk controller

optional: SCSI controller (Pro SCSI Edition)

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