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What (who) is disk sector editor - definition

COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS ITS USER TO READ, EDIT, AND WRITE RAW DATA (AT CHARACTER OR HEXADECIMAL, BYTE-LEVELS) ON DISK DRIVES (E.G., HARD DISKS, USB FLASH DISKS OR REMOVABLE MEDIA SUCH AS A FLOPPY DISKS)
Partition editor; Partitioner; Partitioning utility; Disk sector editor
  • [[KDE Partition Manager]] is another popular partition editor

Hex editor         
  • Screenshot of a common hex editor (hexedit by Pascal Rigaux (Pixel))
  • An example of a simple template-based hex editor.
COMPUTER PROGRAM WHICH CAN REPRESENT AND EDIT DATA AT THE BYTE LEVEL
Binary file editor; Sector editor; Byte editor; Hexedit; Hex editing; HexEdit; Binary editor; Hexadecimal editor
A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a computer program that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file. The name 'hex' comes from 'hexadecimal', a standard numerical format for representing binary data.
Commissioning editor         
BUYER FOR PUBLISHING COMPANY SELECTING MATERIALS TO PUBLISH
Commissioning Editor (Publishing); Acquisitions Editor; Commissioning editor (book publishing); Commissioning Editor; Acquisitions editor; Acquiring editor
In book publishing, a commissioning editor is essentially a buyer. It is the job of the commissioning editor to advise the publishing house on which books to publish.
Disk sector         
LOGICAL OR PHYSICAL DIVISION OF STORAGE MEDIA
Lost cluster; Data cluster; Allocation unit; Storage block; Cluster (file system); Cluster size; Disc sector; Address identification; 512 bytes
In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs) and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.

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Disk editor

A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte-levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, they are sometimes called sector editors, since the read/write routines built into the electronics of most disk drives require to read/write data in chunks of sectors (usually 512 bytes). Many disk editors can also be used to edit the contents of a running computer's memory or a disk image.

Unlike hex editors, which are used to edit files, a disk editor allows access to the underlying disk structures, such as the master boot record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT), file system, and directories. On some operating systems (like Unix or Unix-like) most hex editors can act as disk editors just opening block devices instead of regular files. Programmers can use disk editors to understand these structures and test whether their implementation (e.g. of a file system) works correctly. Sometimes these structures are edited in order to provide examples for teaching data recovery and forensics, or in an attempt to hide data to achieve privacy or hide data from casual examiners. However, modifying such data structures gives only a weak level of protection and data encryption is the preferred method to achieve privacy.

Some disk editors include special functions which enable more comfortable ways to edit and fix file systems or other disk specific data structures. Furthermore, some include simple file browsers that can present the disk contents for partially corrupted file systems or file systems unknown to the operating system. These features can be used for example for file recovery.