| Author | Message | ||
     Reed Darsey |
Stefan, For my next question about templates, I would like to know why an error message appears when applying a Boot Sector FAT or Master Boot Record template to a saved file of each of those sectors? That is, using WinHex itself, or other utilities that save MBRs and boot sectors, get the following message when applying the appropriate template: "The data at offset 0 does not meet the template's requirements. Continue nonetheless?" Continuing loads the template, and the screen looks exactly like what is gotten using WinHex to view the sector on the disk itself. The project I'm on is trying to use WinHex as one of the tools to help fill in the "Media Worksheet" that is the last page of the manual for the demo of ACR Data Recovery Software's "Media Tools". For working on close-to-dead disks I have the DOS Norton Utilies Disk Editor 8.0, which has screens similar to WinHex's templates (but only for FAT16, not FAT32). But you can edit any sector on the hard disk, if you know what belongs where, so printouts of WinHex's templates can then guide recovery efforts. Which is why I save them in a directory to be analyzed by WinHex. NU's Disk Editor runs under DOS, so a simple DOS boot disk can let me work on any hard disk. Then on my machine, I can use WinHex to view what ought to be there, and use Norton's Disk Editor to do the actual editing. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
"The data at offset 0 does not meet the template's requirements." This message pops up because the template is designed to be applied to a disk sector, not a file. You can either ignore the error or remove the line "appliesto disk" from the template definition. | ||
| Bernd Hammon |
Why do I get a syntax error in template definition when testing dbf field.txt template tutorial and no syntax erros when editing and saving the file. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
The check in the template editor does not look at the requires statement's parameter, where the tutorial templates indeed had an error. dbf header.txt: replace requires 30 "0 0" with requires 30 "00 00" dbf field.txt: replace requires 10 0 with requires 10 00 I have updated the downloadable tutorial .zip file. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for reporting back. |