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YOU MUST BE ABSOLUTELY SURE OF WHAT AND WHERE YOU ARE WRITING!
Or you may completely lose all your data.
Before you can physically write anything on a disk, you need to enable writing.
To enable writing,
1 | On the R-Studio main panel, select Enable Write on the Tools menu |
> | The Editable: status will change to Yes from Read Only . |
Now the object can be edited.
To view/edit an object,
1 | Control-click the object and select View/Edit on the contextual menu, or |
Select the object and select View/Edit on the File menu
> | A Text/hexadecimal Editor panel will appear |
Click the panel regions to learn their functions. |
Panel view options
You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable.
ANSI data |
Select/clear ANSI on the View menu |
OEM data |
Select/clear OEMr on the View menu |
UNICODE data |
Select/clear UNICODE on the View menu |
UNICODE+ data |
Select/clear UNICODE+ on the View menu |
Toolbar |
Select/clear Toolbar on the View menu |
Toolbar Button Text |
Select/clear Toolbar Button Text on the View menu |
Properties View |
Select/clear Properties View on the View menu |
Sectors View |
Select/clear Sectors View on the View menu |
Data Interpreter View |
Select/clear Data Interpreter View on the View menu |
Template View |
Select/clear Template View on the View menu |
Bookmarks View |
Select/clear Bookmarks View on the View menu |
Find Results View |
Select/clear Find Results View on the View menu |
2 | View the information and make necessary changes |
Select Enable Write on the Tools menu if you want to save changes.
There are up to four tabs showing the data in different representations. Actual number of tabs depends on the object and property being viewed/edited.
Std |
Exact attribute data. If the attribute is compressed, R-Studio decompresses it prior to showing. |
Unlimited |
Exact attribute data + free space of last cluster. If the attribute is compressed, R-Studio decompresses it prior to showing. |
Direct |
Actual data written on the disk. If the attribute is not compressed, it coincides with the Std representation. |
Allocation |
Resident part of the attribute. |
You may view data in 4 various code pages: ANSI/OEM/UNICODE/UNICODE+ by s witching on/off the respective code pages in the Code pages buttons or select the appropriate code pages on the View menu.
You may select a pattern according to which the data will be parsed and shown in the parsed data pane. The Data Interpreter shows the data selected on the Template pane in various representation.
You may find the next or previous data that matches the pattern signature on the disk. Control-click the right pane of the editor and select either Find Template Signature Next or Find Template Signature Previous on the contextual menu. You may also select these items on the Edit menu.
You may also create your own patterns to parse data from various objects.
Text/hexadecimal Editor gives you various ways to navigate through an object. See the Navigating through an Object for more details.
Text/hexadecimal Editor gives you various ways to copy selected data navigate in an object. See the Data Copy for more details.
To fill an area with a pattern, select Fill on the Edit menu, and specify the pattern and area on the Fill dialog box.
Fill pattern |
|
HEX |
Field for the pattern to fill the area in the hexadecimal representation |
ANSI |
Field for the pattern to fill the area in the ANSI encoding |
OEM |
Field for the pattern to fill the area in the OEM encoding |
UNICODE |
Field for the pattern to fill the area in the UNICODE encoding |
Fill range |
|
From (hex) |
Field for the start position of the area to fill with the pattern |
To (hex) |
Field for the end position of the area to fill with the pattern |
3 | Click the Save Changes button to save the changes , or |
• Select Save Changes on the Edit menu
> | Viewer/Editor will save the changes on the object |
YOU MUST BE ABSOLUTELY SURE OF WHAT AND WHERE YOU ARE WRITING!
Or you may completely lose all your data.
Selecting and saving an area in the Viewer/Editor
You may select an area in the Viewer/Editor panel and save it as a file.
To select and save an area in the Viewer/Editor panel ,
1 | Control-click the beginning of the selection and select Select From on the contextual menu. |
2 | Control-click the end of the selection and select Select To on the contextual menu |
• Select Select... on the Tools menu and specify an area to select on the Select dialog box, or • Click the start point of the area and drag the mouse cursor to its end. |
If you need to select an entire object, select Select All on the Tools menu
2 | Select an appropriate item in the Tools menu to save the data in a required format and specify its file name |
Select:
Save to Binary File... |
to save the data in the binary format (default extension is .bin ) |
Save to Hexadecimal File |
to save the data in the binary format (default extension is .hex ) |
on the Tools menu.
If you select an existing file, R-Studio will ask you if you want to append or overwrite the file.
If a remote computer is connected for Data Recovery over Network , the Save as... dialog box will appear when you select a place to save the data. You may save it to the local or remote computer.
> | Viewer/Editor will save the data in the file |
Loading data from an external file
You may load a data from a file and overwrite an area of the object opened in the Viewer/Editor panel.
To load binary data from a file and overwrite an area of the object opened in the Viewer/Editor panel ,
1 | Select an area to overwrite and select Load from File... on the Tools menu |
If a remote computer is connected for Data Recovery over Network , the Open as Binary File dialog box will appear when you select a place to open the data file from. You may open it from the local or remote computer.
2 | Select the necessary file and load the data. |
> | The area in the Viewer/Editor will be overwritten with the new data. |