DFSee version 6.17 has been released today with menu enhancements and a bug-fix in CR to allow correct COPYING of primary partitions.
DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm
Direct download links:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee617.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Just the 'dfsee' Linux distribution with documentation:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_linux.tgz
Several "SMALL package" ZIPs are available now per platform:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm#dfseedos
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm#dfseeos2
and so on ...
Most important functional changes since 6.16:
- MENU Add BACKUP/RESTORE partition info items to Mode=FDISK
- MENU Set partition -> ACTIVE/HIDDEN/VISIBLE in Mode=FDISK
- MENU Complete partition view (part -r -s) added to Display
- MENU Display Related sectors N/U/X/T/D/A added to Display
- MENU WIPE current sector(s) to ZEROES, for selective wiping
- MENU HPFS find FNODE by PATH for specified file/directory
- PRESTORE * restores to SAME disk as file, if extension present
- CR -at: Fixed primary partition -at:3f,s exact location bug
- MOVE -c NO auto-install of image (DFSIBMGR) over fresh copy
- Progress to STDIO only with -G switch on EXE (OEM batch GUI)
- SIM Fixed default unit being MiB for the -m:n option
- SIM/WIPE Better error handling on disk-full conditions
Note:
There is a design change in the Linux 2.6 kernel for disk-translation that affects many disk-tools including DFSee. The effect is that the geometry used will be DIFFERENT from what the BIOS uses. Using disk-tools (including Suse 9.1 and Fedore core-2 install!) that are not aware of these changes may lead to problems on multi-boot systems. (Windows not booting, OS/2 or eCS loosing LVM info)
Creating partitions using DFSee, then PSAVE before installing Linux allows you to get Linux installed, and a PRESTORE after installation will make the other operating systems happy again ...
PSAVE and PRESTORE is quite easy now:
Mode=FDISK -> BACKUP partition info -> All disks
Mode=FDISK -> RESTORE partition info ...
Enjoy!
Regards, JvW
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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
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