R-Studio Reviewer's Comments

R-Studio from R-tools Technology Inc. is our #6 data recovery pick. R-Studio offers many tools to help you to find your lost or deleted data. With this product you can recover data over a network, make virtual RAIDS and recover data off a CD or DVD.

On the other hand, R-Studio's technical design and fewer search tools makes it less user-friendly than many other products we reviewed.

Feature Set:  

R-Studio had all the features we looked for in data recovery software, except for the ability to recover deleted emails.

As a bonus, this software also offers the ability to recover files from Linux Ext2FS file systems and files from the UNIX UFS file system over a network—neither of which come standard on any other product we reviewed.

Ease of Use:  

The screen designs for R-Studio aren't as easy to use as some of the other products out there. Basically, all the opening screen consists of is your hard drive information and a few icons at the top of the screen. This product is clearly meant for more of a technical person than a novice user.

We however had no problems during the installation and setup of R-Studio.

Recovery Effectivness:  

We recovered every file we searched for with R-Studio.

Search Capabilities:  

With this product, you're limited to searching for deleted files by file type or by looking in every folder individually. We feel R-Studio's search capabilities would greatly increase with the ability to search for a file by the actual name of the file.

Help/Documentation:  

R-tools Technology Inc. supports this product using an excellent, built-in help section and email support. Although R-Studio doesn't come with as many help tools as other data recovery programs, we were able find answers to all of our questions quickly and easily.

Summary:  

Overall, R-Studio by R-tools Technology Inc is good data recovery software. But, we feel it lacks the search capacity and user-friendly design needed to be a truly useful data recovery program.