AMD 4.4.5 user manual 163, DiskTool Shell Window

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User Manual	November 21st, 2008

Figure 13-1: DiskTool Shell Window

DiskTool will only copy drives - not partitions, although it does have the ability to stop copying at the end of a given partition. So, for example, you can copy the contents of a drive starting at the beginning of the drive and ending at the end of the 2nd partition, but you can not copy only the 2nd partition.

LINUX Note: The list box always shows /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1. If you click on one of these and the physical device does not actually exist, the GUI will hang for a short time, and will then display information in the lower list box indicating that a 4Kb media is installed in this device DiskTool only recognizes device names /dev/hda through /dev/hdz. In addition, it looks for the file /proc/ide/hd?/media, and uses the information in that file to determine whether the device is a hard drive or a DVD/CD drive. If the file does not exist, or if its contents cannot be parsed, the device will not be listed.

The buttons on the right side of the DiskTool Window correspond to the four command line options listed above. In addition, there are About and Exit buttons that perform the obvious function.

When creating a new blank image, or when getting an image from a physical device to an image file, an additional dialog is presented that allows you to select how large the new image file should be. The options in this dialog mirrors the [Image Size] options for the equivalent command line-commands.

After launching DiskTool, you are presented with the interface, shown in Figure 13-2.

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