R Studio Data Recovery Software for Windows

User Reviews

• malicious virus

  lipkenpimpkin10/30/2015

  Pros

  this download is malicious software and used as a single term to refer to virus, spy ware, worm etc

  Cons

  Malware is designed to cause damage to a stand alone computer or a networked pc

  Summary

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• All File Recovery Programs aren't created equal.

  Anysia5/1/2015

  Pros

  Easy to use, complete file recovery, no recovering files as strange unreadable formats, allowed you to bulk rename files back to original file names, free for home user to use on flash drives, CF and SD cards that are FAT 12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFat.

  Cons

  None that I have discovered at this time.

  Summary

  Because I wasn't paying attention while my husband was getting ready for work, I chose the wrong delete option when clearing off a CF card. I chose DELETE ALL instead of DELETE SELECTED. And of course I couldn't stop the deletion while in progress. I immediately started SD Card Recovery Pro... effing USELESS. It found 74 files. Some of which were from 2012! Too bad I had deleted over 300 recent images. It only recovered 5 of the deleted images. Their suggestions: try doing it in card reader. Too bad I already had in 3 of them. 1 built into desktop, an external, and 1 in my laptop. Then came EaseUS File Recovery. It found over 900 files. YAY! Unfortunately it recovered them as unopenable TIF and ICO files. I tried every graphics program I had on the computer trying, and searched for others. Even had session EaseUS remote connect. Still kept recovering as wrong file type. I was given typical "something wrong with your system" excuse. Next Iolo Search and Recover - Ok, this found more of them, but only two of accidentally deleted photos. In total about 150, but all recoverable and usable. Just about read to give up, I searched and found one called "R-Undelete". Not expecting much but hoping for the best, I installed it and ran it. R-Undelete found over 900 images/files. I recovered all the sunrise photos I took that morning, and then some. All in their proper format. All readable, openable, not corrupted.

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• good, but not perfect.

  jackhd20153/12/2015

  Pros

  Not the best data recovery software i know.

  Cons

  I lost my photos from my iphone 6plus, I got them back in 1minute with the data recovery software called:Hdata recovery software. It is very safe and the most effective.

  Summary

  hope it can be better than HData recovery,but...

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• Smoothly worked for me, all my data recovered

  ivanhoeve10/20/2013

  Pros

  i recovered all my data. My Lenovo laptop with a WD HDD stopped booting Windows 7, neither in safe mode. Rebooting from last good Windows did not worked, I took the disk and connected via USB to other laptop and the partitions where not recognized. I tried with Power Data Recovery 6.8 and Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery and both failed to recover my data. Demo version of RStudio read all the filesystem folders structure in the first attempt. You can open each folder and even preview your photos and documents. I bought the license (worth the money). Then marked what I wanted to recover and clicked Recovery Marked, choose a destination folder in other disk and that is it. You get your folder structure saved. Y recovered all my data. I did not used their support, neither more advanced thigs (except scan I explain in cons)

  Cons

  I am not a saavy IT guy, only know the basics. Once I bought the license I did an scan (even I saw my files in the demo without scanning). It took almost 4 hours for a 500 gb disk (USB connected). After that, RStudio showed many possible partitions and suggested with green color good candidates to be your partitions, none of them were the right ones. I clicked the one that I initially used (before scanning)and saw all my files. So, try first without scanning, just do Open Files in a good partition candidate you saw (in my case I had 2 partitions 100 and 400 GB, the second one was more probably my data so I took it). If you have to scan do not give up if the greens do not work, then try to see important files in each partition, if you can preview them then you can recover them. The SW seems to have many advanced features for more knowledge people. I think if you start to navigate in the options you can get lost. You can keep in the first screen and still recover your data.

  Summary

  This did the magic recover for me, after failing with other well rated products. If you are looking for free software this is not for you. It does not have features to fix your file systems, at least for dummies, but you can recover your valuable data to other disk and then do a fresh install of Windows, as I did. The good thing is that you do not have to pay the license upfront. You can download a demo, and check if RStudio can allow you to preview your files, only buy if it works for you.

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• An intermediate recovery App

  mnsamuels819/26/2013

  Pros

  It is a good tool to recover data after all kind of disk disasters. I liked its search option, which made data recovery task very easy. I recovered my data, which is lost due to accidental formatting of the hard drive. I recovered up to 350 GB data with the help of this tool.

  Cons

  Regarding data recovery, this software is quite good, but it is very complex to use. I am also not satisfied with its technical support facility as it was not available for 24/7.

  Summary

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• Junk! Junk! Junk!

  DavidJAlsberge9/18/2013

  Pros

  None that I found.

  Cons

  Cannot even see drives or folders that I have NO trouble with. Cannot find Recycle Bin, which is incredibly SAD!

  Summary

  DO NOT TRY OR BUY. It does nothing!

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• Phenomenal Data Recovery Software

  cnetsjf8/5/2013

  Pros

  The Mac product created an image and recovered files (preserving directory structure and file names!) from a failing hard drive and was able to skip unreadable segments of the hard drive in the process. Almost as important was the company's decision to permit you to make an image using their Demo software. Once the image was successfully created, purchasing the license was a foregone conclusion! Every other data recovery product I tried stopped in the middle of recovery and said to use Chkdsk to fix the drive. By the time I found R-Studio, the drive would not mount on three different XP systems, due to the read errors. Since it couldn't be mounted, Chkdsk could not be run. Even though the drive would not mount, I was able to see the partition containing my data using an Acronis boot disk from Disk Director, but Acronis could not copy the partition or clone the disk due to the unreadable file segment errors. Drive failed in the middle of a backup. WD My Book 250GB drive 10yr old

  Cons

  R-Studio's product is hard to find. I googled every possible combination of "data recovery", "unreadable file segment" etc. and just happened to read a thread by a school teacher who was desperately looking for help in recovering data from his failed drive. He was eventually told to take the drive to a specialty shop, but he was nice enough to follow up, give thanks for the help, and indicate that he no longer needed help, since R-Studio had done the trick for him.

  Summary

  Much better than any product I've used. Recovers data from unmountable partition. Automatically skips unreadable file segments. Preserves file names and folder structure. Demo policy is tremendous.

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• Buyer Beware!!! Spend Your Money Elsewhere

  halhoyle6/19/2013

  Pros

  Relatively fast at finding only files that are corrupted and cannot be opened.

  Cons

  Bought this software within the last ten days (June 2013) and ran it on a 500G external (non-OS) disk drive, with respect to which I had already run 3 other recovery programs. This piece of .... (IMHO) did recover lots of files and folders only a couple dozen of which were not corrupted and could be opened. The other recovery software produced thousands of usable files and several gigs of recoverable information.

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• Recovered 600GB of RAW

  joeddoe2/25/2013

  Pros

  Comprehensive capability. Good User Interface. Lots of support resources. Very effectively recovered file system and variety of files in ntfs partition that had gone to RAW.

  Cons

  Lacks data recovery wizard, but otherwise easy to use. Spent $70 on another product before discovering R-Studio.

  Summary

  Tried three or four other data recovery products that all failed miserably before finding R-Studio (relabeled as Seagate File Recovery Software). Worked right out of the box, where the others had failed.

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• Only file retrieval you will need

  Mossyj2/17/2012

  Pros

  It works. It brings back folder structures and file names where others do not. It is relatively cheap considering how well it performs. Runs well on machines with limited specs.

  Cons

  Not free. I did have some issues running it on Vista, but really I blame Vista.

  Summary

  After paying much more for another product that retrieved almost nothing, and what was retrieved was basically a nameless pile of files, I was relieved to find R-Studio. It brought back thousands more files complete with folder structure and original names. For files that it couldn't retrieve all the name information it still brought back what it could. If I never use it on another drive it will have more than paid for itself just by this one use.

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