<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Starting actions</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../include/dvdisaster.css"> </head> <body> <!-- Title header --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td align="left"> <span class="fxxl"><b>dvdisaster</b></span> <i>Version 0.72.6 / 0.79 (devel-3)</i> </td> <td align="right"> <span class="fxxl"> </span><a href="http://dvdisaster.net/en/">To the Internet version</a> <a href="../cs/howtosa4.html"></a> <a href="../de/howtosa4.html"></a> <a href="../ru/howtosa4.html"></a> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- Language chooser or separator --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="hsep"></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" style="height: 10px"> </td></tr> </table> <!-- Main body (Navigation, actual page content, optional news column) --> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0> <tr> <!-- Navigation --> <td style="background-color:#f0f0f0; vertical-align:top; width:20%;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td> <span class="fs"><b>Contents</b></span> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="hsep"></td> </tr> </table><p> <table width="100%"> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="news.html">News</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td style="height:10px;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="index.html">Overview</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td style="height:10px;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="howtos.html">Howtos</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos60.html">The big picture</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos10.html">Scanning media for errors</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos20.html">Putting error correction data on a separate file</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos30.html">Putting error correction data on the medium</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos40.html">Recovering media images</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos50.html">Getting information about images and error correction data</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtos90.html">Testing image compatibility</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td style="width:1%; vertical-align:top;">·</td><td colspan=2><span class="fs"><a href="howtosa0.html">Dialogs and buttons</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:top; font-size:small;">-</td><td><span class="fs"><a href="howtosa1.html">Drive selection</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:top; font-size:small;">-</td><td><span class="fs"><a href="howtosa2.html">Image file selection</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:top; font-size:small;">-</td><td><span class="fs"><a href="howtosa3.html">Error correction file selection</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:top; font-size:small;">-</td><td><span class="fs">Starting actions</span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td style="height:10px;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="download.html">Download</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td style="height:10px;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="qa.html">Questions and Answers</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td style="height:10px;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span class="fs"><a href="feedback.html">Bug reporting</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td></td> <!-- Actual page contents --> <td style="vertical-align:top; width:77%;" rowspan="2"> <!-- Insert actual page content below --> <h3 class="top">Starting actions</h3> <!-- begin of screen shot --> <table> <tr> <td class="valignt"> To start an action in dvdisaster, click on one of the buttons marked green:<p> <table> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/read-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Read (button)"> </td> <td><b>Reading medium contents into an image file</b> to: <ul> <li>read in <a href="howtos42.html#a">a defective medium</a> for a subsequent recovery. <li>read in <a href="howtos23_way=1&expand=0.html">an error-free medium</a> for creating an error correction file.</ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/create-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Create (button)"> </td> <td><b><a href="howtos20.html">Creating an error correction file</a></b><br> (only possible from defect-free media!)</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/scan-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Scan (button)"> </td> <td><b><a href="howtos10.html">Scanning a medium for read errors.</a></b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/fix-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Fix (button)"> </td> <td><b><a href="howtos40.html">Recover the image of a defective medium</a></b><br> provided that <a href="howtos20.html">error correction data</a> is available. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/compare-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Verify (button)"> </td> <td>Display <a href="howtos50.html">information on images and error correction data</a>. </td> </tr> </table><p> <b>Other buttons related to the above actions:</b> <table> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/log-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: View log (button)"> </td> <td><b>View log file of running action</b> (marked yellow).<br> See also: <a href="feedback.html#log">Log file creation</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="valignt"><img src="images/stop-icon.png" alt="dvdisaster UI: Stop (button)"> </td> <td><b>Aborting the running action</b> (marked red).<br> Some actions may take some time to abort; especially when this button is hit while reading a defective sector. </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <a name="snap1"></a> <table class="thumbnail" width="160"> <tr><td><span class="fs">Starting actions</span></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="howtosa4_expand=1.html#snap1"><img src="thumbnails/action-buttons.png" alt="" class="noborder"></a></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><p> <!-- end of screen shot --> <!-- do not change below --> </td> <!-- end of page contents --> </tr> </table> <!-- end of main body table --> <!-- Page footer --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr><td colspan="2" style="width:100%; height:10px;"></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="hsep"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <span class="fs"> <i> Copyright 2004-2014 Carsten Gnörlich.<br> Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. </i> </span> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="hsep"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>