v9.1 [Jul 13, 2022]
Changes:
- The default system info file names have been changed to R-Studio-SystemInfo-yyyy-MM-dd.
Bugfixes:
- It was impossible to disable all additional phases for multi-pass imaging in order to enable only the main one. Fixed.
- R-Studio performed Slow areas and Retrying phases of multi-pass imaging even when when they were disabled. Fixed.
- The Map of file command was active in the left pane of the Content panel. Fixed.
- R-Studio threw a Corrupt data error message for ddrescue map files larger than 64kB. Fixed.
- It was impossible to perform sector map operations for incomplete images. Fixed.
- Not all info was copied from the Get Info window. Fixed.
- Missing disks added to Virtual Volume Set or Virtual Mirror couldn't be edit correctly. Fixed.
- Some partition and drive actions could be performed during disk operations like disk scan, RAID consistency check, and so on. Fixed.
- No progress bar was shown during manual update. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugfixes.
v9.0 [Jan 29, 2022]
- Native support for data recovery hardware from DeepSpar: USB Stabilizer and RapidSpar. Such support allows the user of R-Studio to control hardware parameters directly from the R-Studio interface and create drive's sector maps to improve multiple data recovery operations. (R-Studio Technician)
- Runtime imaging. R-Studio creates drive images in parallel with other drive reading operations. Next time when R-Studio accesses data from imaged drive areas it gets the data from the runtime image. (R-Studio Technician)
- Multi-pass imaging. Images from problematic drives can be created through several phases reading data from good areas first and from bad and slow areas later. Such approach allows for extracting maximum possible amount of data even from quite faulty drives. (R-Studio Technician)
- I/O Monitor allows the user to inspect read/write operations in real time. (R-Studio Technician)
- Support for sector maps, both in the R-Studio's format and in the third-party software ddrescue and HDDSuperClone formats. (R-Studio Technician)
- A new license type T80 . R-Studio T80 is equal in its features to full-fledged R-Studio Technician, runs for a certain period of time, and during its validity period can be upgraded to R-Studio Technician for the initial price difference. The license price of 1 USD per day is very affordable for small businesses, computer repair shops, and individual data recovery contractors.
- R-Studio Technician is now available on our public web pages and can be tested in the Demo mode.
- Several disk objects can be opened in one tab. All these objects can be simultaneously searched for files, their files can be marked and recovered.
- Drive imaging can be interrupted and then resumed. When the user stops an imaging process, they have two options: to discard an already created partial image file or to save it to resume drive imaging later. Created partial images can be loaded, too.
- Some extended options have been added to the drive operation progress windows. They can be altered on-the-fly.
- File types can be searched for on the Known File Types dialog box.
v8.9 [Dec 17, 2018]
- The program may have crashed when parsing damaged xattr on the UFS2 file system.
- Some small internal bug-fixes.
v8.8 [Jul 13, 2018]
Bug-fixes:
- The same text with a different letter case may have been converted to the initial in the Find/Mark dialog box. For example, if the first search was for Alex* and the second one for ALEX*, the latter may have been automatically converted to Alex*. Fixed.
- File mark in a marked folder using the Look in From current folder / Current folder options may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
- Request to save changes was always thrown in the Edit User's File Types window even when all changes had been canceled. Fixed.
- Mark/Unmark commands may have worked incorrectly for an empty folder selected in the Folders pane. Fixed.
- When file icons were selected, R-Viewer's icon may have sometimes appeared in the task bar. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
v8.5 [Dec 14, 2017]
Bug-fixes:
- Corrections in several language localizations.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
v8.3 [Apr 30, 2017]
- Automatic check for new versions.
- Improved preview for video files.
- Improved preview for PDF files.
- Several internal fixes.
v8.2 [Jan 26, 2017]
- Support for ReFS2 file system (Windows 2016 Server).
- Support for NTFS data deduplication.
- New extended duplicate file processing options.
- Support for NVME devices.
- A greatly improved algorithm for Known File Types search.
- Support for Windows Storage Space created by Windows 10 Anniversary update.
- File mask presets.
- A new data analyzing and recovery kernel that improves data recovery speed and results.
- Symlink recovery options in the Technician version.
- File system journal processing for the HFS and Ext3/Ext4 FS file systems to increase a number of successfully found files.
- Soft updates journal processing for enhanced recovery on UFS partitions.
- Support for extended attributes in HFS , Ext3/Ext4 FS, and UFS file systems. This refines recovery of the Mac OSX Time Machine and Linux selinux ACL.
- Optimized memory usage for large disks scanning.
- Improved folder tree discovery for deleted files on the Ext3/Ext4 FS and UFS partitions.
- A regular region can be converted into an exclusive one.
v8.1 [Oct 25, 2016]
Support for NVME devices.
File mask presets.
Greatly improved raw file search
S.M.A.R.T. support for disks storing S.M.A.R.T. threshold data in a non-standard place.
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.
v7.7 [Jul 12, 2015]
R-Studio 7.7.159204 Sat Jul 18, 2015
Improvements:
* The file recovery algorithm has been optimized.
Changes:
= The Show Files in HexEditor command has been moved from the shortcut menu to the File menu.
Bugfixes:
- Once enabled, the Show files in Hexadecimal Editor command could not be disabled. Fixed.
R-Studio 7.7.159149 Mon Jul 13, 2015
New features:
A new advanced algorithm for raw file recovery (search for file signatures).
The Hex editor extension: A file location is shown in a particular disk sector.
Support for Directory Junctions and Symbolic Links.
Improvements:
* Now R-Studio shows extra files found by their file signature both in the Raw Files folder and in recognized partitions.
Bugfixes:
- When recovering Directory Junctions, R-Studio might save files to the Directory Junctions symbolic paths rather than to the recovery path. Fixed.
- The Save File Names command didn’t work from the extension and time stamps tabs. Fixed.
- R-Studio asked to save scaninfo before initial scanning an opened image or loading scan info. Fixed.
- R-Studio attached recognized partitions from an opened dsk disk image to those on the original hard drive. Fixed.
- R-Studio cut text strings in the progress window. Fixed.
- Anytime the Settings were changed R-Studio asked to re-write its log. Fixed.
- The Maximum messages in the Event Log option on the Settings/Log tab didn’t work. Fixed.
- The Apply changes immediately option could be enabled only after the second click after changing parameters on the RAID Parents tab.
v7.5 [Oct 17, 2014]
R-Studio 7.5.156219 Tue Oct 21, 2014
Bugfixes:
- R-Studio sometimes couldn’t select a file system to scan. Fixed.
R-Studio 7.5.156211 Thu Oct 16, 2014
New features:
Support for Windows Storage Spaces created by Windows 10. Now R-Studio can process WSS created by Windows 8/8.1 and 10, both with automatic recognition and manual adding their parents.
Support for software Apple RAIDs created by the Mac OSX system. R-Studio can automatically recognize and assemble them from their members. Members with severe corrupted RAID parameter records can be added manually.
Support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM/LVM2). R-Studio can automatically recognize and assemble its volumes from their components even if RAID parameter records are slightly damaged. Components with severe corrupted RAID parameter records can be added manually.
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.
v7.0 [Sep 20, 2013]
- automatic RAID parameter recognition.R-Studio can recognize all RAID parameters for RAID 5 and 6. This feature helps the user to solve one of the most difficult problems in RAID recovery.
- it support for parity delays in all applicable RAID layouts.
- enhanced parity delay controls.
v6.0 [Jun 7, 2012]
Simultaneous image creation and scan. Now R-Studio can create an image and, at the same time, scan the data from the image. As a result, two files are created at the same place: an image file and file with the scan info.
File Recovery Lists: lists of files from disks that can be exported out of R-Studio, manually edited, than imported back, and files from those lists will be automatically marked for recovery. Such lists are very useful if you want someone who is far away to decide which files are to recover.
RAID consistency check: you may check whether the parity blocks on a RAID are valid.
Image and scan info files may be saved on and load from, remote computers. This helps R-Studio to avoid transferring large data volumes over network during network recovery.
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.
