Restore the files lost or removed by mistake or due to technical errors by scanning the drives of your computer with the program and checking the list of files suggested for recovery. The suite supports NTFS, NTFS5, ReFS, FAT12/16/32, exFAT, HFS/HFS and APFS (Macintosh), UFS1 and UFS, Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS and other partitions.
R-Studio is intended to recover accidentally lost files. It works effectively not only with local disks but also networked drives. Likewise, the tool is compatible with a wide array of disk types, including dynamic disks, RAIDs, mirrors and spanned volumes. It is also great that it supports multiple file systems, including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, HFS, UFS, and Ext3/4fs. It has the main advantage of working on difficult conditions, such as corruption of the partition structure and severe damage caused by virus attacks and hardware malfunction. It can also successfully recover data after a drive or partition has been reformatted.
The program allows scanning the entire drive or you can also manually specify scan parameters, which allows you to examine a given part of the disk only. Moreover, you can use filters to look for given file types. There are three types of views while the tool is conducting the search. This allows you to decide viewing all the details, some of them, or none, which has an impact on speed. By the way, the program works faster than most similar tools. Fortunately, it supports scanning data inside compressed and encrypted files as well as retaining the original folder structure.
When the results are ready, it is possible to preview them to get a recovery prognosis. Luckily, many file types are allowed even if their associated programs are not installed on your system. These contents can also be edited using an advanced hexadecimal editor. Good news is that the tool supports S.M.A.R.T. to know about the disk health. So, if anything is going wrong, you can store the contents of the drive in an image file. This way, the risks of losing information become fewer. Likewise, it lets you start with a portable device and retrieve data from a computer that cannot successfully start.
To conclude, R-Studio is an excellent solution to recover data when similar software cannot do it. However, this is not the kind of tool everybody can use without difficulty, probably due to its multiple features. The program is free to try, but it does not let you recover files larger than 256 Kb. It is available in various licenses: Standard, Network, FAT, NTFS, and Technician, with various prices and features.
v5.4 [May 4, 2011]
- NAT/firewall traversal. A connection can be established either from R-Studio to R-Studio Agent, or from R-Studio Agent to R-Studio. This allows R-Studio to traverse NAT/firewall when recovering data over the Internet. HTTP tunneling is used when necessary.
- Scan algorithm improvement. Scanning was improved for FAT and NTFS partitions.
In-place saving of recovered files on a remote computer. When recovering data on a remote computer over network, R-Studio can now save recovered files to another disk of the same remote computer-to an external USB hard drive, for example. Moreover, the remote computer can be connected to the Internet rather than to a local network. This feature is especially useful for data recovery technicians and corporations, which can now serve their clients truly remotely over the Internet and do not need to transfer large volumes of data over network. In addition, files recovered from a remote computer can be saved to a local computer or on another remote computer with an Internet connection where R-Studio Agent is running.
- Forensic mode (Technician version only). In this mode, R-Studio generates a forensic data collection audit log that can be presented at court hearings. This log includes information about a hardware configuration on which the forensic data collection takes place and MD5 checksum for recovered files.
- RAID 6 support, including Reed-Solomon and Vertical XOR. Support for custom-specified RAID 6 layouts.
- Support for exFAT and Ext4 FS file systems.
- Advanced object copy. In addition to byte to byte copy of any object visible in the Drives panel, smart copy of partitions and hard drives with size and offset adjustment is available.
- Progress bar. It shows the progress for an individual file being recovered and overall recovery process, elapsed and remaining time, and recovery log.
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