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Review
DFSee is an extremely useful though highly technical tool designed to help system administrators to deal with anything related to your disk partitions – from creating a new partition to fixing whatever partition problems may arise. Besides, it allows you to clone and create image files of full partitions, as well as recover your data after partition-related disasters.
If you happen to be one of those system administrators who miss that good old FDISK function from the MS DOS days, DFSee is what you need. Its MS DOS-looking interface will take you back to the pre-GUI era right away. The reason for this is simple – a heavy GUI is not the right way of approaching a partition loss when all you have is a boot-disc to work from. However, do not be fooled by its “prehistoric” looks – DFSee can save your hard discs and partitions just like the most fancy-looking application. Actually, it can do much more.
Its DFSDISK functionality will allow you to recover access to your system whenever it seems unable to start up. It will scan the disk looking for whatever is left from your partitions and will try to fix whatever problems made your system to freeze. You can also create new partitions in those free areas of your system found suitable for that purpose. Besides, DFSee can recover files no longer recognized by your operating system in any FAT, HPFS, or NTFS partition, and create backups of original partitions either as an image file (RAW or compressed) or by cloning a specific disk. Finally, just to note that DFSee can copy and move your partitions (partition tables and LVM included).
Full-featured application with dozens of useful functions.
Allows you to create images of full partitions and clone them in the same or a different disk.
None.
Reviewed by: Francisco Javier Martínez Calvo
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Reviewed: 2 months ago
What's new in version 11.0
11.0, Major release with several new features and many fixes and enhancements CR -Y:n sets prefered entry for new EBR extended containers CR -X:n sets prefered entry for new MBR extended container CR default MBR entry 3 (last) slot for new extended container CREATE dlg prefered table entry for partition, MBR and EBR Disksize shown including partial last cylinder whenever possible EXPORT include FS specific command pragma line in export file FAT sync warning text update to use FATSIM+FATWRIM as a combo FDISK menu 'Set base to Freespace area' for easy (edit) access FILE dialog Added sort-indicators on file/dir lists in dialog FILE dialog Support sorting in file dialog DIR/FILE windows FILE dialog Sort on Volume popup window using Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F9 File recovery, ignore errors on searching from menu (optional) GENPART, generate -X and -Y options on all logical partitions GEO fixed recalculate cylinders when H/S changes (broken in ver10.9) GEO forced Always overrule existing geo when forced is set (virtual) GEO source Ignore PT if sect/track larger than 63 (OS/2 huge disk) GEO traces More information on geo calculation in trace output IMAGE command Fix for used buffersize > 64Kb with 4096 byte sectors IMPORT automatic FS specific command execute, like IRS for JFS JFS IRS command sets Inode Recovery Signature, after (quick) format JFS menu 'Find ANY after FORMAT' find any INODES after quick format JFS 'IRS 0' sets recovery signature wildcard, find any possible INODES JFS/HPFS BPB-letter shown in partition detailed view (letter/data) JFS/HPFS PPB versus LVM driveletter mismatch warning when bootable MBR recognize Plop Boot Manager code on MBR-sector display Make sure DFSDISK/DFSCHECK scripts run in batch mode (no popups) NTFS automatically recognized in a type 0x12 recovery partition NTFS MFT-seq number to a few NTFS related error messages in CHECK NTFS better reporting of bad fixup structures on NTFS system structures NTFS various display and analysis fixes to support 4Kb sector sizes OS-X HFS+ partition type 0xAF added to partition type displays OS2 buffer Maximum buffer size phys disk I/O set to 127 (< 64Kb) PART ERROR active-extended changed to WARNING, and removed fix hint PART fixed incorrect assigning of IBM BMGR labels (Linux EBR sectors) RECOVER count BAD_STRUCTURE errors as failures on file recovery Sort Partitions on various partition lists using Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F9 Sort Volumes on various volume lists using Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F9
