Geat news, OS/2 users! The new DFSee has arrived with fantastic inovations. Now you can restart your Warp quickly & fine with total efficiency. I, @Macarlo, old DFSee user, recommend it!

The file is dfsee291.zip (621,41KB)

You can get DFSee from Jan web-site or from Hobbes

Programmer Jan van Wijk is announcing availability of DFSee version 2.91 wich has FDISK and SETBOOT capabilities comparable to the OS/2 versions of those programs. This is a major functional update to the DFSee program! 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, allowing use from bootable diskettes as well.

Version 2.91 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

- Extensive freespace determination and reporting

- Graphical MAP display command

- TRANS(late) command for number and CHS conversions

- Recovery for the (Win9x/PQmagic) 0x0f extended type

- 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 Jan web-site or from Hobbes

CONTACT AUTHOR

Jan van Wijk

http://www.fsys.demon.nl

e-mail: dfsee@fsys.demon.nl

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