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Open a compressed (IMZ) image, and start BROWSE for file viewing or copying
On selection this will open a 'file-open' dialog listing the
COMPRESSED imagefiles (*.IMZ) 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 BROWSING, either:
- For an image with a FILESYSTEM (partition, volume),
present a filemanager like display for the ROOT directory
- For an image with a complete PARTITIONED DISK,
present a list of all partitions (not just this image!),
and after selection one partition, starts a BROWSE
session for the contained filesystem, if any.
Using BROWSE, you can selectively COPY files from a compressed
image, making these a good alternative for other backup solutions.
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Open IMZ, RAW or ISO imagefile for analysis and browsing only, no restore!
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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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Save disk/partition contents to compressed IMAGE-files, supports removables
This submenu contains all menu-items related to creating IMAGES
from objects like Disks, Partitions, Volumes or other Images.
Imaging will make a sector-by-sector exact copy from the object
to a binary file, which can either be RAW or compressed.
RAW images are often used for bootable diskette-images, while
compressed images are good for backup purposes and can also be
stored in multiple-files, each limited to a certain size to
allow storage of the files on removable media like CD or DVD.
Note that DFSee itself does NOT contain CD-burning software!
SMART imaging helps in reducing the size of compressed images
by skipping unused areas on the disk or partition completely.
When creating an image backup for recovery purposes, where you
want ALL sectors of a disk/partition to be represented in the
image, make sure you do NOT specify the '-S' option.
So, if you use the dialog do NOT change the default of:
(x) Compressed
to
(x) Smart comp
This way, deleted files or damaged filesystem structures will
be part of the image and could be recovered from it later.
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Create RAW or Compressed imagefile from current or to-be-selected Disk
This will create one or more IMAGE files for (all or part of)
a disk, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Create RAW or Compressed imagefile from current or to-be-selected Partition
This will create one or more IMAGE files for (al or part of)
a partition, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Restore (or Compare/Verify) compressed imagefiles to a disk or partition
This submenu contains all menu-items related to RESTORING or
COMPARING images to objects like Disks, Partitions, Volumes
or other Images.
Images are sector-by-sector exact copies from an object
in a binary file, which can either be RAW or compressed.
RAW images are often used for bootable diskette-images, while
compressed images are good for backup purposes.
Compressed images can be stored in multiple-files, each limited
to a certain size to allow storage of the files on removable
media like CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW.
- RESTORE writes back data from the image to the (disk) object
- COMPARE will check image data agains the data in the object
- VERIFY will only check the imagefile integrity, using CRC
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Restore RAW or Compressed imagefile to current or to-be-selected Disk
This will RESTORE an imagefile or COMPARE an imagefile to (all or part of)
a physical or virtual disk, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Restore RAW or Compressed imagefile to current or to-be-selected Partition
This will RESTORE an imagefile or COMPARE an imagefile to (all or part of)
a partition, to be selected in the next dialog ...
Context sensitive help within the dialog will be related to the FILE
dialog when in that area, and specific to imaging in the rest ...
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Show embedded header information for an IMZ compressed image, or size of RAW
This will display information from the embedded header for a
DFSee IMZ compressed imagefile (single or one of a multi-file).
For other files, like RAW images, it will just show the size
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Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Open a VirtualBox (VDI) image, creating a new DISK, or add snapshot to DISK
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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Created by Jan van Wijk: Aug 2007, last update: 02-Feb-2020 |
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