Regions

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Scanning large objects may take a long time. Sometimes, only smaller area of a disk needs to be scanned or searched for files. Such area is called a region. A region can be created on any object in the R-Studio's Device/Disk panel.

Created regions can be scanned, and files on them can be recovered in the same way as from hard drives or logical disks.

Created regions can be deleted.

Note: R-Studio does not create anything real on the disk. Regions are virtual objects that do not affect actual data on the disk.

To create a region

Select an object on the R-Studio's Device/Disk panel and click the Create Region button

Other ways to create the region

Right-click the selected object and select Create Region on the shortcut menu

or

Select the object and select Create Region on the Create menu

or

Select the object and press the F4 key on the keyboard
Specify required parameters on the Create region dialog box and click the Create button

Create region dialog box

Region options

Disk size:

Shows size of the object where the region is to be created. The region cannot be larger than this size.

Start:

Start point of the region

Size:

Size of the region. Cannot be larger than Disk size.

Numbers in these fields can be in bytes or sectors. If no letters are after the numbers, R-Studio assumes the numbers in bytes. The following case-insensitive notation is possible:

b bytes

kb kilobytes

b megabytes

gb gigabytes

tb terabytes

Sec sectors

ÜA Region object will appear on the Device/Disk panel.

To delete a region

¡Select a Region on the R-Studio's Device/Disk panel and click the Delete button, or

Right-click the selected region and select Delete Region on the shortcut menu.