Exclusive Regions

Exclusive regions are areas on any object visible on the the R-Studio's Drives panel that are excluded from disk operations. R-Studio never tries to read/write data from/to such area. Exclusive regions are necessary when, for example, there are areas with bad sectors on a hard drive, and it is necessary to avoid any disk operations with such areas to not inflict further damage to such drive and to speed work with it.

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

To create an exclusive region

1	Right-click an object on the R-Studio's Drives panel and select Create Exclusive Region on the shortcut menu, or

Select the object and select Create Exclusive Region on the Create menu

2	Specify required parameters on the Create Exclusive Region dialog box and click the Add button

Create Exclusive Region dialog box

Exclusive Region options

Offset:

Start point of the exclusive region

Size:

Size of the exclusive 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 are in bytes.

See Data Formats for more details.

>	An Exclusive Region object will appear on the Drives panel.

Its properties can be seen on the Excluded Areas tab.

To remove an exclusive region

*	Select an Exclusive Region on the R-Studio Drives panel and click the Remove button, or

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

To change the size of an exclusive region

*	Right-click an Exclusive Region on the R-Studio Drives panel, select Edit on the shortcut menu, and add/remove excluded areas on the Edite Exclusive Region dialog box.

You may remove an excluded area by right-clicking it and selecting Remove on the shortcut menu.