Ken,
Thanks for the warning. It has been noted. This isn't my primary system --
so it would be little more than an inconvenience should I wreck it and have
to reinstall everything.
I still have a question. How do I tell exactly what files are in the disk
clusters which I am battling. I see little benefit of playing with a hex
editor when I don't even know what files to open with it. I know they
exist and that they include approximately 2500 disk clusters too close to
the end of my drive, but they could be anything -- Windows Registry, old
temp files, something from software I've previously installed, or maybe even
Windows core components.
I need to be able to find out what files to tinker with before I can open
them in a hex editor. Can I do it, and, if so, how?
Thanks.
Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Recoverable disk space
> 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')
>
