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File Menu: [File operations and open disk/partitions]

Next likely sector

From main menu: File -> Next likely sector

Display most likely desired 'next' sector (in hierarchy) in default format

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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.

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This +1 sector, go Forward '>'

From main menu: File -> This +1 sector, go Forward '>'

Display the sector just AFTER 'this' one (sectornr +1) in default format

Menu item screenshot(s)


    This will display the sector AFTER the current one (this),
    in the default format for the type of sector found there.

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This -1 sector, go Backward '<'

From main menu: File -> This -1 sector, go Backward '<'

Display the sector just BEFORE 'this' one (sectornr -1) in default format

Menu item screenshot(s)


    This will display the sector BEFORE the current one (this),
    in the default format for the type of sector found there.

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Log new output to file ...

From main menu: File -> Log new output to file ...

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

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Trace to 9 cyclic files ...

From main menu: File -> Trace to 9 cyclic files ...

Functional trace program-flow to 9 one-MB cyclic files, for DFSee debugging

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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.

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Open object to work with

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with

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.

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Disk

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Disk

Open disk selected by submenu, to work on part-tables, LVMinfo or whole disk

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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

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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used

Partition F6

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Partition F6

Open partition selected by submenu, to work on the filesystem in a partition

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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.

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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used

Volume

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Volume

Open volume for analysis ( refreshes submenu) For HD, use 'Partition'!

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used

Imagefile ...

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Imagefile ...

Open Compressed or RAW imagefile FOR BROWSING or ANALYSIS ONLY, not Restore!

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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

Open freespace area from a submenu, align for primary partition (disk, base)

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used

Freespace, Logical

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Freespace, Logical

Open freespace area from a submenu, align for logical partition (disk, base)

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used


Partition, verbose

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Partition, verbose

Open partition selected by submenu, to work on, show more details on opening

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used

Volume, verbose

From main menu: File -> Open object to work with -> Volume, verbose

Open volume for analysis ( refreshes submenu) Show more volume details

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a volume (driveletter) to be used


Create a QUERY report ...

From main menu: File -> Create a QUERY report ...

Generate an email/news friendly QUERY report with disk and partition info


    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

Save all text in text Output-window to an ASCII file (could be large!)


    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

Change the current directory, where files will be saved by default


    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

Attach/Detach/Display partitionable media, Eject and Refresh Removable media


    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

Remove all, re-scan/attach all physical disks to disk list; then display all


    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

Attach TO DFSee disk-list, media like a physical/virtual disk or RAW image


    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 ...

Create and attach a Memory disk, sized and initialized with a selected .PDx

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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

Create and attach a new Memory disk, size as specified or same as current

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    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

Attach an existing and ACCESSIBLE physical disk, by disknr (Unix: /dev/name)

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    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)

Attach a RAW imagefile as a disk, like a DFSee .IMG file, ISO or many others


    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)

Attach a COMPRESSED (disk) imagefile as a disk, supports DFSee .IMZ only!

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    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)

Attach a VirtualBox (disk) imagefile as a disk, supports Base/Snapshot VDIs

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    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

Detach FROM DFSee disk-list media like a physical/virtual disk or RAW image

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    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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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used

Display the DFSee disk-list

From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Display the DFSee disk-list

Display DFSee disk-list, mapping of disk-id to media like disks and devices

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    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

OS: Eject removable medium selected from a list of known removable drives

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    This action will attempt to eject a medium selected from
    a list of (potentially) removable media.

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Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a removable volume (driveletter) to be used

Refresh removable media

From main menu: File -> Attach/Detach/Display disks -> Refresh removable media

OS: Refresh the list of removable media, attempt rediscover new ones by OS


    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

Display (disk) Device and Volume info, as available for the operating system

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    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

Display volume information, 'vol' command, including 'df' when available


    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

Display low level disk/device information, NOT IMPLEMENTED for DOS or OS/2!


    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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    Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'

    



Boot using IBM Bootmanager

From main menu: File -> Boot using IBM Bootmanager

Reboot to the a BMGR bootable partition selected from the list (setboot)

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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    Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'

   


Boot the system Now

From main menu: File -> Boot the system Now

Reboot the system after confirmation, filesystems are flushed properly.

Menu item screenshot(s)


    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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    Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'

   


Exit c-Q

From main menu: File -> Exit c-Q

Exit the DFSee program


    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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    Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'

   



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