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Display most likely desired 'next' sector (in hierarchy) in default format
This will display the 'next likely' sector on the current opened store by using the 'next' value set by any previous display of a sector. Displaying the 'next' sector (Ctrl+N) on an opened filesystem will show the most interesting sectors like bootsector, superblocks etc. In general, each display function will set this 'next' value to the sector that is the most 'desirable' to be visited/displayed next. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Display the sector just AFTER 'this' one (sectornr +1) in default format
This will display the sector AFTER the current one (this), in the default format for the type of sector found there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Display the sector just BEFORE 'this' one (sectornr -1) in default format
This will display the sector BEFORE the current one (this), in the default format for the type of sector found there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Open a logfile for all screen output to come, append if file exists
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested filename in the current directory. You can change the name and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create a new directory for the logfile. All information that goes to the screen will be appended to the specified file as well. When the specified filename in the dialog ends in a '^' character, the program will automatically number new logfiles sequentially, by appending '001' .. '999' to that filename, and selecting the first one that does NOT exist yet (see automatic logfile numbering). When the specified filename in the dialog ends in a '~' character, the program will replace that by a DATE string in the form YYYYMMDD (see automatic logfile DATE postfix) DATE/TIME format substitution ----------------------------- The filename may contain date/time format strings, substitued as: ~1 Day 2 digits (DD) ~2 Month 2 digits (MM) ~3 Year 4 digits (YYYY) ~4 Hour 2 digits (HH) ~5 Minute 2 digits (MM) ~6 Second 2 digits (SS) ~7 Full name of current weekday ~8 Full name of current month ~9 2 digits ISO 8601 weeknumber - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Functional trace program-flow to 9 one-MB cyclic files, for DFSee debugging
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested filename in the current directory. You can change the name and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create a new directory for the tracefiles. Functional tracing will be enabled, and logging will be set to use three files of maximum 1 Mb in size, so the risk of filling up the available space is greatly reduced. The first file will have file extension 'log' and the rest will use a number extension '.lnn' with nn being the logfile sequence number starting at 01 and without an upper limit. This method of tracing is intended to allow analysis of crashes (traps, access violations) in DFSee itself that are very hard to diagnose otherwise. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Open an object like a disk, partition or volume to analyse and work with
This submenu contains all menu-items related to OPENING an object to analyse, fix or otherwise work with using other DFSee commands and menu selections. The opened object will be the CURRENT one. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Open disk selected by submenu, to work on part-tables, LVMinfo or whole disk
On selection this will open a submenu containing all physical and virtual disks known to DFSee. Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display the first sector of the disk, the MBR with a partition-table - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used
Open partition selected by submenu, to work on the filesystem in a partition
On selection this will open a submenu containing all partitions on all the disks known to DFSee. The partitions are grouped per physical/virtual disk Selecting one of these will open it for further use and set the 'base' values to the start and end of the partition. Logical sector number 0 (LSN 0) will represent the first sector in the real partition (bootsector) After opening the partition, its bootsector will be displayed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Open volume for analysis (
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used
Open Compressed or RAW imagefile FOR BROWSING or ANALYSIS ONLY, not Restore!
Open freespace area from a submenu, align for primary partition (disk, base)
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used
Open freespace area from a submenu, align for logical partition (disk, base)
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used
Open partition selected by submenu, to work on, show more details on opening
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Open volume for analysis (
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used
Generate an email/news friendly QUERY report with disk and partition info
Save all text in text Output-window to an ASCII file (could be large!)
Change the current directory, where files will be saved by default
Attach/Detach/Display partitionable media, Eject and Refresh Removable media
Remove all, re-scan/attach all physical disks to disk list; then display all
Attach TO DFSee disk-list, media like a physical/virtual disk or RAW image
Create and attach a Memory disk, sized and initialized with a selected .PDx
Create and attach a new Memory disk, size as specified or same as current
Attach an existing and ACCESSIBLE physical disk, by disknr (Unix: /dev/name)
Attach a RAW imagefile as a disk, like a DFSee .IMG file, ISO or many others
Attach a COMPRESSED (disk) imagefile as a disk, supports DFSee .IMZ only!
Attach a VirtualBox (disk) imagefile as a disk, supports Base/Snapshot VDIs
Detach FROM DFSee disk-list media like a physical/virtual disk or RAW image
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used
Display DFSee disk-list, mapping of disk-id to media like disks and devices
OS: Eject removable medium selected from a list of known removable drives
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a removable volume (driveletter) to be used
OS: Refresh the list of removable media, attempt rediscover new ones by OS
Display (disk) Device and Volume info, as available for the operating system
Display volume information, 'vol' command, including 'df' when available
Display low level disk/device information, NOT IMPLEMENTED for DOS or OS/2!
Reboot to the a BMGR bootable partition selected from the list (setboot)
Reboot the system after confirmation, filesystems are flushed properly.
Exit the DFSee program
On selection this will open a submenu containing all volumes
(driveletters) The list can be refreshed for removable media
using the <F7> key.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the volume, usually that is the bootsector.
Volume access is needed for devices like diskettes and CDROM.
It will open a volume by its driveletter, using the standard OS
filesystem driver.
For harddisks the 'Open Partition' menu selection is strongly
advised since there will be less problems introduced by the
extra filesystem-layer.
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Imagefile ...
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Imagefile ...
On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
RAW or COMPRESSED imagefiles present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the imagefile.
This is most useful to open PARTITION imagefiles, containing a
filesystem, that can then be BRWOSED, or analysed on other ways
Using BROWSE, you can selectively COPY files from a compressed
partition image (.IMZ), making these a good alternative for
other backup solutions.
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Freespace, Primary
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Freespace, Primary
On selection this will open a submenu containing all freespace
areas on all disks known to DFSee.
The freespaces are grouped per physical/virtual disk.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use by setting
the 'base' values to the start and end sectors for the freespace.
This will limit many operations to work in this area only
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Freespace, Logical
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Freespace, Logical
On selection this will open a submenu containing all freespace
areas on all disks known to DFSee.
The freespaces are grouped per physical/virtual disk.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use by setting
the 'base' values to the start and end sectors for the freespace,
with the START-sector aligned for a LOGICAL partition in that area.
This assumes the freespace starts at a cylinder boundary (head 0)
and it will set the base to the same cylinder at head 1.
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Partition, verbose
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Partition, verbose
On selection this will open a submenu containing all partitions
on all the disks known to DFSee.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and set
the 'base' values to the start and end of the partition.
After opening the partition, its bootsector will be displayed,
where applicable VERBOSE mode will be used to show more detail
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Volume, verbose
From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Volume, verbose
On selection this will open a submenu containing all volumes
(driveletters) The list can be refreshed for removable media
using the <F7> key.
Selecting one of these will open it for further use and display
the first sector of the volume, usually that is the bootsector,
where applicable VERBOSE mode will be used to show more detail
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Create a QUERY report ...
From main menu: File -> Create a QUERY report ...
This will generate a short QUERY report, with a line-length
and size that allows it to be easily included in an email or
newsgroup posting showing the most relevant disk and partition
information when you request for help ...
It will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the logfile.
When a logfile is currently open, it will be closed and
then reopened after the QUERY has completed.
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Save screen to file F4
From main menu: File -> Save screen to file F4
This will present a 'file-save-as' dialog with a suggested
filename in the current directory. You can change the name
and navigate to other volumes, directories and even create
a new directory for the logfile.
All information that is currently present in the scrollable
text window, will be written to the selected/specified file.
Note: The file will be overwritten when it exists already.
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Change current directory
From main menu: File -> Change current directory
This will present a 'select-directory' dialog with the current
working directory displayed. You can change it bu selecting
another drive, subdirectory or even typing in a new path.
The path as displayed (in blue) will become the current working
directory when the dialog is closed.
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Attach/Detach/Display disks
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks
This submenu contains menu-items related to media management for:
Partitionable Media : Attach, Detach, Display
Removable Media : Eject, refresh
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Update DFSee disk-list c-U
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Update DFSee disk-list c-U
This submenu allows you to update/refresh the dfsee disk list.
All currently attached disks are removed, including any manual
added ones like virtual disks, then a re-scan of all physical
disks is done, and each found one is added to the list again
This will resemble the situation at initial startup of DFSee,
but reflects any removed or added removable media (USB)
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Attach to DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list
This submenu allows you to attach a new partionable medium.
A partionable medium is any medium known to DFSee that can
be subdivided into partitions. All available partitionable
media can be listed using the 'media' command or menu-item.
Every medium available can be opened or used as a 'disk' in
other DFSee commands or menu items.
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MemDisk from .PDx Template ...
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> MemDisk from .PDx Template ...
This will present a file-open dialog where a .PDx file
containing saved disk-information can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the new virtual disk will be
created with equal size and geometry, and the saved sectors
from the .PDx file will be loaded into the virtual disk.
When matching .SNx/.BNx or .IMx files are present, these will
be imported or restored to the new virtual disk automatically.
This is extremely useful to create a virtual copy of an
existing disk for partitioning or recovery experiments.
The results of the DFSDISK script are ideal candidates to
be used as templates for a new virtual disk (DFSDISK?.*)
A VIRTUAL disk only exists within memory in DFSee, and can be
used to analyse a setup or test many partitioning and recovery
scenarios without any risk of damaging the real disk.
Note: Since the whole virtual disk is kept in main memory, some
commands like WIPE, CLONE and imaging are not practical to
use on them, they would fill all available memory ...
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Empty virtual disk
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> Empty virtual disk
This will present a dialog where the size of of the new virtual
can be specified using either CHS-geometry based values or a
direct size in binary megabytes or gigabytes (MiB/GiB).
The default for the size unit is MiB. Example values:
800 ;will create an 800 Mib virtual
117,g ;will create an 117 GiB virtual
3748,c ;3748 cylinder disk, default geometry
3748,c 128 32 ;3748 cylinders, 128 heads, 32 sectors
When left blank, the disk will be modelled after the currently
selected disk, with the same size and geometry.
The virtual disk will be completely empty after creation.
A VIRTUAL disk only exists within memory in DFSee, and can be
used to analyse a setup or test many partitioning and recovery
scenarios without any risk of damaging the real disk.
Note: Since the whole virtual disk is kept in main memory, some
commands like WIPE, CLONE and imaging are not practical to
use on them, they would fill all available memory ...
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Physical, accessible disk
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> Physical, accessible disk
This will present a dialog where the NUMBER of
an existing physical disk can be specified.
On selecting a valid disk, it will be
attached as a new partionable medium.
At startup of DFSee all existing physical disks will be
attached by default, unless the '-d' switch is used.
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Raw disk image (.IMG)(.ISO)
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> Raw disk image (.IMG)(.ISO)
This will present a file-open dialog where a RAW image file
containing a partitioned disk image can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the RAW image will be opened and
attached as a new partionable medium.
This means the contents will be shown with the 'part' command
and all other DFSee functionality for disks and partitions is
available for the image ...
This is extremely useful to analyse or work on RAW container
files for virtual-machine products like SVISTA or Virtual Box.
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Compressed disk image (.IMZ)
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> Compressed disk image (.IMZ)
This will present a file-open dialog where a COMPRESSED image
file containing a partitioned disk image can be selected.
On selecting such a file, the COMPRESSED image will be opened
and attached as a new partionable medium.
This means the contents will be shown with the 'part' command
and all other DFSee functionality for disks and partitions is
available for the image ...
This is useful to analyse or work on DFSee compressed full-disk
images, for example to extract files using BROWSE
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VirtualBox disk image (.VDI)
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Attach to DFSee disk-list -> VirtualBox disk image (.VDI)
On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
VirtualBox diskimage (*.VDI) present in the current directory.
The file-dialog has controls to let you change the volume,
directory and selection-wildcard to allow easy selection
of any file accessible through a drive-letter.
For a VBox BASE VDI, this will add it as a new DISK, from
which you can select a partition, and start a BROWSE session.
For a (matching) SNAPSHOT VDI, it will automatically ADD this
to the corresponding BASE VDI disk. To add a complete virtual
disk, you should first open the BASE VDI, then all snapshots
in the correct order, oldest to newest.
When a snapshot VDI selected does NOT match any of the already
opened BASE VDI disks, it will be opened as if it was a BASE
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Detach from DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Detach from DFSee disk-list
This will remove the selected 'disk' from the list of partionable media.
Partionable media, known as 'disks' within DFSee, can be listed using
the 'media' command or the menu-item 'View -> Partionable Media'.
Every item listed is considered a 'disk' so its partitions can
be displayed, analysed and worked on.
The DETACH action will remove one 'disk' from that list, making it
unavailable for other DFSee functions until you attach it again.
By default, at DFSee startup all physical disks will be attached,
and on exit all disks will be detached automatially.
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Display the DFSee disk-list
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Display the DFSee disk-list
This will display a table showing the relationship between:
Disk-id The disk-id as used in many DFSee commands
DFSee-type Type of medium for DFSee, physical, virtual ...
disk number Real disk number, specific to the type of medium
Description The (Linux) device name for this disk device,
an Image filename and/or details on the medium
All entries in this table can be used as a 'disk' in the many
DFSee commands that deal with them, and these are also listed
in the default partition and MAP displays in DFSee.
Note that the 'Disk-id' is really a 'Partionable Medium Id',
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Eject a removable medium
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Eject a removable medium
This action will attempt to eject a medium selected from
a list of (potentially) removable media.
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Refresh removable media
From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Refresh removable media
This will refresh the list of removable media.
On OS2 it will use the LVM Engine to rediscover any
potential removable media (Rediscover PRM).
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Device and Volume management
From main menu: File -> Device and Volume management
This submenu contains menu-items for device and volume functions
to show informarion about (disk) devices and the volumes that
are present/mounted on them.
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Display Volume information
From main menu: File -> Device and Volume management -> Display Volume information
This will show the operating system information known to DFSee
as implemented in the 'vol' command'.
For platforms that support it, it may also include output from
the 'df' utility.
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Display OS device/disk info
From main menu: File -> Device and Volume management -> Display OS device/disk info
This will show the operating system information about all disks
as implemented in disk-utility command in the OS in question
This is currently NOT IMPLEMENTED for DOS or OS/2!
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Boot using IBM Bootmanager
From main menu: File -> Boot using IBM Bootmanager
This will allow you to select any of the defined IBM BootManager
bootable partitions to boot from.
On selection this will flush the filesystem-caches when possible,
and then reboot to the selected BMGR name.
There will NOT be an additional 'are you sure' confirmation!
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Boot the system Now
From main menu: File -> Boot the system Now
On selection this will flush the filesystem-caches when possible,
and then reboot in a similar way as <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Delete> would.
There will NOT be an additional 'are you sure' confirmation!
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Exit c-Q
From main menu: File -> Exit c-Q
On selection this will exit the program, and return to the
evironment that started it. This may be the operating system
commandline, desktop or even another program.
When DFSee was started in 'SHELL' mode, this selection
will be disabled.
Shell mode is most often used to prevent access to the operating
system, or perhaps the operating system command interpreter is not
available at all (example: using DFSOS2.EXE as protshell in OS/2).
You can force program-exit using the <Alt> + ` (back-quote) keys,
but the effect is unpredictable ...
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