User`s guide

LIFDIAG
LIFDIAG contains diagnostic functions useful for recovering data from damaged/corrupted disks and to
perform fast full LIF to LIF disk backups.
The menu line for LIFDIAG contains a menu name followed by a set of command words on the top line
on the display. Each command has one letter in red on a color display (bright white on monochrome
display) indicating the hot key for that command. Pressing the hot key causes the command to be
executed. The currently selected command is in inverse video on a color display (in bright white on
monochrome display). As an alternative to using the hot key to execute a command, the currently
selected command may be moved by pressing the left or right arrow keys and executed by pressing the
[
Enter
]key.
LIFDIAG Menu:
LIFDiag: Edit Backup Help Quit
Hot Keys: EB H Q
Edit Edit logical sectors on a LIF disk, including read sectors (with display in
hex/ASCII), write sectors (even to other disk addresses), modify sector contents (in
hex, decimal, or ASCII), and find data pattern on disk (specify in hex, decimal, or
ASCII). Any number can be specified in hex by prefacing the number with ‘’0x’’.
Pressing this key will prompt you to enter the disk path of the LIF disk to edit. If an
error results in specifying the disk path (e.g. no disk), then the edit menu will not
allow the disk to be edited. Press ‘’Quit’’ and try ‘’Edit’’ again. The size &
characteristics of the disk are displayed if no errors are detected.
For a full description of edit functions, see ‘’EDIT Menu.’’
Backup Full disk backup between specified source and destination disk (can be the same
disk). Either the entire disk may be copied, or just the contiguous file area
contained by the LIF files. For damaged disks, there is an option to skip bad sectors
that are read/written (they are zeroed out on the destination disk). Any errors are
displayed in a special ERRORS window. For a full description of Backup
functions, see ‘’BACKUP Menu.’’
Help Display command summary on the display.
Quit Quit LIFDIAG. Pressing this key will ask for confirmation. Press ‘’Yes’’ to exit
the program.
File System Conversion (LIF/DOS)
LIFDIAG
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