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Viewing and Editing Objects


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 to expand/collapse R-Studio Text/Hexadecimal editor

Click the panel regions to learn their functions.

Text view of the data

Panel view options

You may set which panels and bars to enable/disable.

Click to expand/collapse 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.

Viewing

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.

Patterns or Templates

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.

Navigating

Text/hexadecimal Editor gives you various ways to navigate through an object. See the Navigating through an Object for more details.

Data Copy

Text/hexadecimal Editor gives you various ways to copy selected data navigate in an object. See the Data Copy for more details.

Filling an area with a pattern

To fill an area with a pattern, select Fill on the Edit menu, and specify the pattern and area on the Fill dialog box.

Click to enlarge

Fill dialog box

Click to expand/collapse Fill options

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

Click to expand/collapse Other ways to select an area

• 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

Click to enlarge

Select dialog box

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.

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