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.
v7.3 [Aug 10, 2014]
Features:
- Support for Windows Storage Spaces. R-Studio can automatically recognize and assemble Windows Storage Spaces from their parents even if their databases are slightly damaged. Their parents with severe corrupted storage pool databases can be added manually.
- Support for DiskSpare Disk Imager (DDI) images and disk maps. R-Studio can read and process images and disk maps created by standalone DDI hardware.
Improvements:
- When recovering data over network, R-Studio now processes virtual block RAIDs, as other objects, on the remote side, avoiding large data transfers over the network.
- R-Studio Demo can recover files up to 256 KB.
- The scanning stop procedure is improved: scan information can be saved before stopping.
Bugfixes:
- Sometimes R-Studio might cut recognized partitions on virtual RAIDs.
- R-Studio might incorrectly found places on disks where deleted files/folders were placed if their MFT records were overwritten by new files/folders.
- S.M.A.R.T. info for new disks might be detected incorrectly.
- File search for cyclic simlinks might work incorrectly.
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