Not wanting to seem like I'm talking down to you but I might think you
wouldn't want to be using a hex editor yet if you have to ask what it
is.
That said, it is a tool, much like a regular text editor, EXCEPT, it
lets you play with the individual bytes as hexadecimal values and
arbitrarily change them to any value you wish. As you can see, doing
this to a simple text file might not be so bad, doing it to an
executable or a specially encoded file could be deadly.
It's located off one of the utilities menus in your desktop. Take a
peak at a file with it if you wish. Play with it if you're brave, but
don't say you weren't forwarned.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy
> Kersenbrock
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Recoverable disk space
>
>
> Bob,
>
> Perhaps my newbie status concerning technical issues is
> showing... What is a
> hex editor?
>
> I have already uninstalled a good portion of the software on
> my machine and
> have nothing left in the Running Programs list (Ctrl>Alt>Del)
> other than
> Explorer and Systray. All I've gained is 60-some MB of
> recoverable space.
> At least I've eliminated some of the scattered clusters, but
> now I have two
> large (1000+ cluster) clumps near the end of the drive that I
> can't get out
> of the way. If I could move or eliminate these cluster groups, I could
> recover sufficient space and almost half of my drive.
>
> As it is, I can only now recover 120 MB from a disk with more
> than 1 Gig of
> free space! I suspect that the problem clusters are acutally parts of
> Windows itself -- maybe even something vital like the
> Registry. Maybe I'll
> be able to tell once I know what a hex editor is and how to use it.
>
> Thanks
> Jeremy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 9:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Recoverable disk space
> >
> > I was just using Commander as an example of the type of
> program. Hmmm,
> > have you tryed looking at the sectors with a hex editor?
> Don't change
> > anything, just look, maybe you can find a clue as to what
> program that
> > they belong to. Another indicator will be the date on those
> files. If
> > you can figure out what the filenames are (hex editor
> again) check the
> > dates, if they get updated regularly then they probably belong to a
> > ysytem level program. If they haven't been touched in a
> long time they
> > may be leftovers from something that's no longer on your system.
> >
> > Once you identify them there ater ways to deal with them.
> See what you
> > can find out.
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Bob Jackson
> >
> >
>
>
