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.
v8.0 [May 9, 2016]
Improvements
- The Find/Mark dialog box is re-invoked in the Advanced mode if it was in that mode last time. It also keeps those last advanced search/marked parameters.
Text/hexadecimal editor:
- A GoTo dialog box can be invoked by clicking the Offset field on the Status bar.
- The cursor position can be copied from the GoTo dialog box.
Bugfixes:
- The program could hang when a partition was opened with files sorted by time stamps. Fixed.
- The Apply changes immediately checkbox had to be clicked twice to become selected. Fixed.
- Reverse RAIDs could be created incorrectly for virtual RAIDs. Fixed.
- The Copy Text command might copy information incorrectly when files were sorted by timestamps and extensions. Fixed.
- It was impossible to enter HEX data on the Scan dialog box. Fixed.
- Changes to custom known file types were not applied immediately. Fixed.
- Group Description for the user known file types might loose its manual changes when other fields were changed. Fixed.
- The Set for all drives button on the Settings/Bad Sectors tab remained active after it had been clicked and, therefore, the settings had been applied to all drives. Fixed. Now the button becomes active only when some changes for a drive have been made on the Properties tab.
- The scan info might disappear from the Drives view when the scan was stopped and then continued, although it appeared again when the scan was stopped again. Fixed.
- An empty RAID Sequences window remained after its RAID object had been deleted. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs are fixed.
Text/hexadecimal editor:
- Text wasn't scrolled to when the cursor position was changed and data representation was switched to Data or Text. Fixed.
DDI integration:
- It was impossible to enable the Bad sectors column once it had been disabled through the shortcut menu. Fixed.
