[WarpCast] DFSee 2.92 available with FDISK and SETBOOT capabilities - 4/06/99




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Source: Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee (dfsee@fsys.demon.nl)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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DFSee now includes a fully functional FDISK module that 
lets you display, create and delete partitions of any type 
and size. It also supports OS/2 bootmanager setup, 
including all the SETBOOT commands.

All commands can run in batch mode, requiring no user
intervention at all, so you can now FDISK your OS/2 or
Win-NT system automatically from a simple DOS boot 
diskette! And it can do all that from either OS/2, DOS or 
Windows-NT!

So if you are using an OS/2 multiple-boot system you can
now switch to a different operating system automatically,
as an example: "DFSDOS SETBOOT /iba:WARP"
will re-boot to the bootmanager system named WARP from DOS

For those of you that don't know DFSee yet, DFSee is an 
FDISK, display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and 
filesystems.

Started as an HPFS-tool for OS/2-only in 1994, it now 
covers:

- Display, modification and analysis for disk
  partition-tables
- 'MAP' graphical disk display (modelled after 
  PartitionMagic)
- Full display and analysis and lots of recovery features 
  for the HPFS filesystem, including UNDELETE and 
  boot-record recovery.
- Display coverage of all FAT filesystems including VFAT,
  FAT32 and OS/2 EA's. No specific recovery options yet.
- Display of NTFS boot-record, MFT structures and 
  directories. Recovery of the NTFS boot-record when 
  damaged
- Binary display mode allowing analysis of any disk- or
  filesystem structure. Limitted editing is supported too.
- Acces to disks based on several methods allowing acces 
  under most circumstances: physical sector-level directly 
  to the disk, logical sector-acces to volumes/partitions.
- Several 'fix' and 'recovery' commands each targeting a 
  specific error situation. Example: 'fixext' will correct 
  the unwelcome large-extended partition type 0x0f back to 
  the standard 0x05.

Because of the targeted use for DFSee it is a command-line
and text-only utility (no GUI). At the moment an OS/2, 
Win-NT and DOS (+ Win-95) version exist.

Version 2.92 of the DFSee disk-analysis and repair utility
adds several new features (to 2.82) and some bug-fixes like:

- Support for disks larger than 8Gb by DFSDOS
- Recovery of NTFS and HPFS boot-records
- Graphical MAP display command
- TRANS(late) command for number and CHS conversions
- All (OS/2) FDISK and SETBOOT capabilities

I would very much like to hear some experiences you have
with DFSee, either positive or negative.

You can get DFSee from my web-site:  www.fsys.demon.nl

With some delay, it will be on HOBBES as well ...



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