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

You as well can switch the ASCII display to a full 8-bit-display, that 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.

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

The Free Edition of DiskSpy permits 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.

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.

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 as well cache size and serial numbers of a hard disk.

With DiskSpy Free Edition you will be possible 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.

These are the main features of this software

• 7- and 8-bit-view on the ASCII display
• Byte-, word- and doubleword-views
• Vertical and horizontal scrolling
• Search for ASCII character strings
• Display of every sector of any installed hard disk drives

· Detailled display of capabilities of the installed hard disk drives

Requirements for this software

• IDE harddisk controller
• bootable floppy drive or CD-ROM
• PC 486 or higher, 4 MB RAM, VGA

· optional: SCSI controller (Pro SCSI Edition)