Re: PTEDIT32.zip
Hedy Madrid
As with PartitionInfo, you can either use one of the utilities in the Quick Start or you can download and unzip the stand-alones PTEDIT32.zip(for Windows) or ptedit.zip(for DOS) from the Symantec public FTP folder. When the application isfirst opened (as in Fig 4) you should see four main lines of values.Each line is translated from the corresponding 16bytes of code in theMBR into a comprehensible form for us humans to read (and to edit). Anyinterim changes one makes appear in red until the changes aresaved/written to disk. Don't save any such changes UNLESS YOU REALLYMEAN IT and know what you are doing. If you have more than one harddrive or array in your system ensure that you choose the correct one in the drop down list atthe top. We recommend that you write down any original values on a piece of paper before committing any changes to disk; it will only take you a moment or two.
3[Return to Text] This tool was available from Symantec's FTP site, but no longer! It was removed; as were all utility programs made by PowerQuest: The Windows version of Partition Table Editor is no longer located here:
_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/PTEDIT32.zip . A DOS version is also available; which could be used on hard disks containing only DOS or to check the partitions made by Linux or some other OS. We've even used this DOS version to test MS-DOS 3.30 partitions under BOCHS! The old demo of PTS-Disk Editor is also quite nice for quickly checking Extended partitions under DOS.