DFSee version 8.11 released

February 19, 2007 by Jan van Wijk

DFSee 8.11 has just been released with some nice enhancements!

You can finally create JFS volumes now completely within DFSee, no need for
additional work with the regular LVM program.


Much better 'removable' and 'large floppy' display and handling, including
a FAT FORMAT that can create bootable OS/2 USB sticks. The latter requires
a minimum OS/2 system copied too of course, and compatible hardware :-)

Thanks to Rainer Stroebel for much research, and creating the
eCS-OS/2-USB-Boot WIKI in progress at:

http://p2066.typo3server.info/wiki-usb-boot-en.html

See point 6.3.2 specifically, I created a bootable eCS stick with that
today that boots to a command prompt and DFSee ... (but several attempts
with others sticks failed)


DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS JFS, and NTFS,
resizing, imaging, cloning and sector editing.


More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip

Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using '811'
instead of the generic '8xx' version number


Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee810.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee


Most important functional changes since 8.10:

- BOOTSECT enhanced display, BPB-Geo/dsk L-geo, JFS bootcode
- DESKTOP Fixed auto resize on startup, using MODE command
- DISK Switch to Mode=xxFS on large-floppy-format disks
- FORMAT + FIXBOOT support Veit Kannegieser's OS2LDR.SEK code
- IMAGE Dialog, fix empty 'start' value messing up command
- LVM Create LVM signature area for LVM/JFS partition types
- LVM Surpress 'BAD' warning on fakeEBR display (fixed Geo)
- LVM dlg Allow empty Vol/Part/Letter fields to mean delete
- LVMsync Change default to NO synchronize to avoid problems
- MAP Show PRM & large-floppy 'removable' status when known
- MAP Show large-floppy: FS-format, label, driveletter
- MAP -m Reworded int13 limit message line for more clarity
- MENU Actions - > Format with FAT filesystem - > new submenu
- MENU Actions - > Format ... - > Current, OS2LDR Large Floppy
- MENU Remove mode=FDISK menu duplicate 'D' accelerator key
- MENU Exclude removables from 'Boot using IBM Bootmanager'
- PART Switch to Mode=xxFS based Part-type for non-formatted
- PART Added disk-level warning 'large floppy' format
- PART Added table footer with ' > ' status character legenda
- PART Show large floppy: FS-format, label, driveletter
- PART -n Fix table header on Linux default (or part -n -b)
- PART/MAP Implement removable detection (like USB) for Windows
- RESIZE Fix crash in resize of FAT32 filesystems (8.09/8.10)
- RESTORE Dialog, fix empty 'start' value messing up command
- RESTORE Fixed display of the buffersize for uncompressed .img
- SETBOOT Add removable indicator (for not bootable) when known
- SETBOOT Display the (LVM) driveletter and filesystem on -list

Regards, JvW

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