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R-Studio Changelog

What's new in R-Studio 7.3 Build 191259

Dec 14, 2023
  • New features:
  • The Technician/T80+ version:
  • Some means to open deleted encrypted volumes have been added. This is especially useful for encrypted APFS volumes.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Some small bugfixes.
  • The Technician/T80+ version:
  • There were discrepancies between final data on the Finished multipass imaging window and data in the Log. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 7.3 Build 191246 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Support for the ReFS 3.10 file system.
  • Support for Bitlocker Drive Encryption. R-Studio can decrypt both BitLocker Drive Encryption and BitLocker ToGo volumes using either a password, recovery key, and a .bek file. R-Studio Technician/T80+ can also use FVEK (Full Volume Encryption Key) or VMK (Volume Master Key) data for decryption.
  • Support for VHD/VHDX/VDI disk image formats. All R-Studio versions can load these files, R-Studio Corporate and Technician/T80+ can create them.
  • Read-only support for the dmg files (Apple Disk Image: all versions ), e01/(ewf) files (Expert Witness File Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+), and aff files (Advanced Forensic Format: R-Studio Technician/T80+).
  • Support for creation of encrypted RDR image files (the main disk image format for all R-TT, Inc products).
  • Support for SCSI/NVME translation for external USB/NVME boxes. Among other things this makes it possible to obtain S.M.A.R.T. attributes for such devices.
  • Improvements:
  • NTFS deduplication processing has been improved.
  • Passwords can be shown in their dialog boxes.
  • It's now possible to mark/unmark empty folders through Find/Mark dialog box using the Mark All/Unmark All command.
  • R-Studio now shows multi-pass imaging statistics after the imaging process is completed.
  • All data from the Properties tab can be copied in one command.
  • R-Studio Technician/T80+:
  • Multi-pass Imaging Phases can be enabled/disabled on-the-fly.
  • Symlinks can be exported to custom recovery lists either as real folders or as symlinks.
  • Search for files has been added to the HTML custom recovery lists.
  • Changes:
  • New icons for storage devices.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The program might have crashed when showing unicode symbols in the upper range (greater than FFFF) like Chinese symbols, emoji, etc. Fixed.
  • The program may have frozen rarely while opening ext fs partitions. Fixed.
  • R-Studio couldn't correctly load multi-file images if their parts are located in different places. Fixed
  • R-Studio may have aborted data recovery when the Skip button was clicked under some rare circumstances. Fixed.
  • Files with the question mark "?" in their names could not be saved to files recovery lists. Fixed.
  • Bad sectors weren't saved to mask presets. Fixed.
  • A progress bar may have rarely crashed under specific circumstances: closing dialog box and showing a warning message at the same time. Fixed.
  • Sometimes, the device root wasn't marked as Root which led to problems in moving around files. Fixed.
  • Folder-links may have been marked incorrectly when a recovery lists with file IDs was loaded. Fixed.
  • Moving around links to folders which are actually files may have been incorrect. Fixed.
  • Several bugs connected with symlink processing on UNIX file systems have been fixed.
  • Detection of cyclic symlinks may have been incorrect. Fixed.
  • Some cosmetic and minor internal bugs have been fixes.

New in R-Studio 7.2 Build 191153 (May 26, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Data storage types (SSD, HDD, USB, etc) info has been added to the Drives pane.
  • Search/mark/mask can be specified by bad sectors.
  • All S.M.A.R.T. attributes can be copied through one action (The Copy All button on the S.M.A.R.T. panel).
  • The Options tab is added to the Wiping progress indicator.
  • R-Studio Technician:
  • Search/mark/mask can be specified by runtime imaging status.
  • The creation time and accessed time data has been added to the forensic report.
  • New file formats for recovery lists have been added: HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV. The new formats, especially the HTML one, allow the customers to easily edit recovery lists in their web browsers and then send edited lists back.
  • Disk scan has become available during multi-pass imaging.
  • A completed runtime image can now be either resumed or re-written.
  • A new option "Skip files with bad sectors" has been added to runtime imaging of individual folders/files.
  • A new option "Unused clusters only" has been added to the multi-pass and complete runtime imaging options.
  • Improvements:
  • Any files from Extra Found Files will not be recovered if there are their duplicates in the file systems (Root) when the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option is selected. Earlier this option took effect only for recovered files.
  • Several tabs can now be moved by dragging them with the mouse.
  • Processing of various non-printable characters in file names has been improved.
  • Hints for shortcut menu items are now shown in the status bar.
  • Search for and opening of file regions is now faster.
  • Last used paths are now saved in several new fields.
  • The Cross link info has been added to the Get Info panel.
  • Saving and loading of Broken File Name and Hidden Attribute parameters have been improved.
  • R-Studio Technician:
  • Progress display for the I/O monitor window has been improved.
  • A data grid has been added to the I/O Monitor window.
  • A color scheme and legend have been improved on the I/O Monitor window.
  • A sector map window may be opened directly from the message about successful opening the sector map file.
  • Speed for runtime imaging of individual files has been significantly increased, especially for many small files.
  • Changes:
  • Save/Load File Names menu items and commands have been renamed to Export/Import Recovery List.
  • The FileID files parameter was moved to the top control box on the Find/Mark dialog box.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
  • Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
  • An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
  • Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed when an unmounted CDROM drive was selected. Fixed.
  • Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
  • Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
  • Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio and R-Studio Agent.
  • The I/O Monitor window showed incorrect info after resizing. Fixed.
  • An unnecessary message about post actions may have appeared in email notifications. Fixed.
  • User's file type file may have been ignored during program startup. Fixed.
  • R-Studio showed ? in names in links as small squares. Fixed.
  • R-Studio couldn't find formatted exFAT partitions when they contained only root folders (without subfoders) and their roots was rewritten. Fixed.
  • Unstable sectors were treated as bad. Fixed.
  • An unnecessary tooltip may have appeared in the I/O Monitor window. Fixed.
  • Sometimes incorrect marks may have appeared in the top level of the folder tree. Fixed.
  • Incorrect data may have appeared in the Accessed Time column. Fixed.
  • Some fixes in the algorithm of recovery chances estimation.
  • The path to runtime image was processed incorrectly for runtime imaging on its dialog box. Fixed.
  • Hardlinked files may have been recovered incorrectly. Fixed.
  • The Estimated size value on the Create Image dialog window may have not changed when the Compression ratio slider was moved. Fixed.
  • Files/folders with non-Latin names were not marked after recovery lists were loaded. Fixed.
  • No read indicator (R) was shown on the I/O Monitors window while skipping slow areas. Fixed.
  • All S.M.A.R.T. icons changed to green after a runtime image was connected. Fixed.
  • Names of files which contained something similar to HTML tags may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Nothing was selected for the Copying mode options on the Smart drive copy tab in Drives Copy Wizard. Fixed.
  • It was possible to clear the Enable write option even when runtime imaging was activated. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed when file sorting tabs were switched. Fixed.
  • The Runtime image status and Bad sectors columns were sorted incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Reaction to incorrect Empty Space Size values in the RAID reconstruction module was dubious. Fixed.
  • Bad sectors and Runtime image parameters could not be included into file mask presets. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed when the same partition got reopened in the same tab. Fixed.
  • Several states of Recovery Chances may have been found incorrectly for FAT file systems. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed during multipass imaging with reverse reading and enabled scan. Fixed.
  • An incorrect message "There is nothing to process using the specified settings" may have appeared when the disk object had bad sectors. Fixed.
  • Data read speed was enormously slow for multipass imaging of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
  • Data form the drive's first sectors wasn't included into the image when creating an multipass image of FS only with reverse reading. Fixed.
  • Files were not always recovered from the Find Results pane. Fixed.
  • Many cosmetic buxfixes in R-Studio.

New in R-Studio 7.1 Build 191047 (May 14, 2023)

  • New features:
  • The following items have been added:
  • A new command Close All Images to close all opened images.
  • Support for the XFS file system;
  • Support for Intel Software RAIDs;
  • Data wiping for drives.
  • Additionally for the Technician versions:
  • Runtime imaging for individual folders/files;
  • Imaging of drive's file system (FS map) only;
  • Drive and file maps for all supported devices;
  • Drive imaging to a physical drive rather than to an image file;
  • New file hash functions sha1 and sha256 to forensic logs.
  • Improvements:
  • Discovery of symlink targets has been improved.
  • Info about multi-pass imaging phases has been added to the log.
  • A new option Check sectors status has been added to the Recheck Recovery Chances dialog box.
  • Estimation of recovery chances has been improved.
  • The ISO image file type has been added to the File Types list.
  • During execution of the Complete runtime image, I/O Monitor now shows the read speed of the disk rather than read/write speed.
  • File System error message codes are expanded for deletion/move errors.
  • The Technician version:
  • Post Actions (Shut down the computer on task completion & E-mail options) have been added to the Options window.
  • Changes:
  • The default system info file names have been changed to R-Studio-SystemInfo-yyyy-MM-dd.
  • The I/O Options button has been renamed to the Options button.
  • The Technician version:
  • The Forensic Log Settings dialog box has been moved to the Forensic Log Settings tab on the Recover dialog box.
  • Bugfixes:
  • R-Studio may have processed huge ext4fs file systems for too long time. Fixed.
  • It was impossible to stop disk actions with malfunctioning disks. Fixed.
  • Not all information was copied from the Get Info window. Fixed.
  • The Files and Folders checkboxes were disabled by default on the Find/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
  • File search and mask returned incorrect results for the Modification date. Fixed.
  • The Yes to All and No to All buttons appeared on the Save scan info dialog box even when only one tab was opened. 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.
  • R-Studio may have frozen while executing the Recover All Files command. Fixed.
  • File sorting may have changed to default (Real file system) when the Show Files command was executed for an already opened tab, or the tab was moved, etc. Fixed.
  • Child objects of a wiped drive/partition were not automatically deleted from the Device view pane. Fixed.
  • Sometimes, R-Studio may have crashed on close. Fixed.
  • The Close All command appeared in the Partition tab shortcut menu even only one tab was opened. Fixed.
  • Questionable folders may have disappeared in the panels after Rescan Folder. Fixed.
  • Existing zero-sized files had the green mark for recovery chances. Fixed.
  • The Preview command was active in the Find Results panel for zero-sized files. Fixed.
  • A negative offset may have been entered into the I/O Monitor field. Fixed.
  • An image of a password-protected APFS container could not be opened even with the correct password. Fixed.
  • File marking results may have been different for different time formats. Fixed.
  • The information in the Disk Properties tab was updated incorrectly. Fixed.
  • R-Studio crashed when the byte-to-byte imaging was selected in a system with only one disk. Fixed.
  • Masked marked files were incorrectly counted. Fixed.
  • Tabs may have closed without a due warning. Fixed.
  • Deleted files were not marked with the red cross in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
  • The Recover Marked button may have been inactive after marking files using the Find/Mark dialog box and when the Skip files with bad sectors option is selected on the Recover dialog box. Fixed.
  • The Recover Marked shortcut menu item and button remained inactive when a file was marked for recovery in the Find Results pane. Fixed.
  • When there was not enough room for a large file and a new destination was assigned, the leftover of the file left in the first place. Fixed.
  • Recovery froze and could not be resumed if a file name and path appeared too long. Fixed.
  • Recovery froze from the Extensions tab when the Restore folder structure and Restore from root options were selected on the Recovery dialog box. Fixed.
  • It was possible to perform many Drag&Drop operations while performing various drive tasks. Fixed.
  • The OK button was active when the Password field was empty on the Enter the password dialog box. Fixed.
  • Data on virtual block RAIDs with disks with bad sectors may have read too slowly. Fixed.
  • An RDR-type image could not be correctly removed from a virtual RAID. Fixed.
  • RAID-connected tabs didn't close when the RAID parameters were altered. Fixed.
  • A Virtual Block RAID object may have frozen when another RAID parent was added. Fixed.
  • Many cosmetic, wrong messages, and localization bugs have been fixed.
  • The Technician version:
  • The Map of file command was active in the left pane of the R-Studio's panel. Fixed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • R-Studio Technician for Mac/Linux couldn't be re-registered into the T80+ version. Fixed
  • Multi-pass images with several takes were created incorrectly if the Perform reading in reverse order if possible option was selected. Fixed.
  • I/O Monitor showed read speed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • A sector map file was being written not as often as necessary while completing runtime imaging. Fixed.
  • Text/hexadecimal editor:
  • The Hexadecimal editor didn't close an opened disk when disk wiping started. Fixed.
  • The content of the UNICODE and UNICODE+ columns may have merged. These columns could not be resized. Fixed.
  • An unnecessary inquiry about overwriting a file after executing the Tools - Save to Binary File... or Save to Hexadecimal file command may have appeared. Fixed.
  • The Find previous command and reverse search may have executed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • The Select From/To procedure didn't work correctly with the Search command.
  • The search command may have been executed incorrectly when the Not equal option was enabled. Fixed.
  • The Append command may have been executed incorrectly. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 7.0 Build 7009 (Sep 16, 2022)

  • New features:
  • 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.
  • Support for the VMDK virtual disk format (open: all version, creation: Technician).
  • Support for the ReFS 3.7 file system (Windows Server 2022).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Support for sector maps, both in the R-Studio's format and in the third-party software ddrescue and HDDSuperClone formats.
  • I/O Monitor allows the user to inspect read/write operations in real time.
  • Improvements:
  • Support for APFS sealed volumes created by macOS Big Sur and later.
  • R-Studio warns the user when an APFS disk is hardware encrypted or its decryption is possible only by using the iCloud account.
  • File system recognition has been improved for scanned APFS file system.
  • Processing of encrypted APFS partitions has been improved.
  • Support for macOS file vault has been improved.
  • Processing of the .Trash folder has been improved for macOS file systems.
  • Read/write operations have been greatly accelerated for block RAIDs with small block sizes. E.g., the read speed for a 512b block has been increased from 5MB/sec to 100MB/sec.
  • Read operations has been accelerated for block RAIDs by paralleling I/O operations for parent disks. E.g.,the read speed for a 3HD RAID5 has been increased from 100MB/sec to 190MB/sec.
  • When a user opens an already opened partition it brings the user to the corresponding tab.
  • Option processing for the Find/Mark dialog box has been improved.
  • R-Studio shows now S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME SSD devices.
  • Detection of S.M.A.R.T. attributes have been improved for new hard drive models.
  • Detection of Disk identity parameters (Vendor name, Product name, Firmware version, Serial number) has been improved.
  • Symlink processing has been improved, including the Mark all and Unmark all commands.
  • Execution of the Save All File Names / Load File Names commands has been accelerated.
  • File type icons have been added to the Find Results (Find All Files) panel.
  • Message display in the Log View panels has been improved.
  • Recheck Recovery Chances has been improved.
  • A warning message appears when the user tries to close tabs with open disks/partitions.
  • The recovered part of a file will remain when the recovery process has been interrupted.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The rdr image for an APFS container couldn't be parsed automatically and required refreshing. Fixed.
  • An empty string appeared in the Drive type field in the Properties tab for an APFS volume. Fixed. R-Studio shows the "APFS Volume" string now.
  • R-Studio may have crashed while enumerating files on APFS file systems. Fixed.
  • Metadata FS snapshot for a recognized APFS file system could not be saved. Fixed.
  • When the recover options Restore folder structure and Restore from root were selected, the original Modified and Accessed timestamps were changed to the time of file recovery. Fixed.
  • Symlinked folders remained marked when their target were unmarked. Fixed.
  • Files from symlinked folders may have recovered to incorrect places. Fixed.
  • The Advanced Scan dialog box may have shown the Scan area parameter incorrectly after second clicks on the Advanced button. Fixed.
  • Strings on Properties panel were selected incorrectly. Fixed.
  • The Find/Mark dialog box could not show all opened partitions correctly when they were many. Fixed.
  • R-Studio showed files in renamed folders as deleted, although they were not. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may freeze when opening a RAID created from disk images. Fixed.
  • The Logical Sector Size parameters may have appeared twice on the IDE Properties tab. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have frozen when creating an image of a recognized partition. Fixed.
  • Files didn't appear in the Find Results panel after they were unmasked if file sorting tabs were switched.
  • R-Studio may not have found a file by its exact size. Fixed.
  • FAT cross-linked folders may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Zero-sized files could be viewed in the built-in Text/Hexadecimal Editor and file previewer. Fixed.
  • The FAT32 bitlocker to go couldn't be recognized. Fixed.
  • An image file from a remote computer could not be saved to either the remote computer or local one. Fixed.
  • S.M.A.R.T. for Intel NVME devices may have been displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Some cosmetic fixes.

New in R-Studio 6.8 Build 6047 (Jul 8, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Disk mount may haven't been working in the version for old Macs. Fixed.
  • Check for update didn't work in the Technician version. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.8 Build 6041 (Jun 18, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Native support for Apple silicon (the Apple M1 chip) has been added.
  • Support for APFS container layout on the Apple silicon computers has been
  • Added.
  • Several file systems (the main and several reformatted ones) can now be
  • Found on one partition, if their traces remain in the boot records.
  • Improvements:
  • The program interface has been improved for High Sierra and Big Sur macOS.
  • APFS file systems and APFS Fusion Drives can be recognized on a pure hard
  • Drive without protective GPT partitions.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The program may have gone into a loop and frozen at the last stage of partition recognition. Fixed.
  • The program may sometimes have frozen when recognizing the file system. Fixed.
  • When a partition without a file system on a MBR disk was formatted, the partition divided into a not-equal volume and partition. The were shown as two different objects. Fixed.
  • When R-Studio found a direct volume on a flash drive, it didn't search for deleted partitions. Fixed.
  • Sometimes email could not be correctly delivered in the Technician version on the Big Sur macOS.

New in R-Studio 6.7 Build 6026 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Virtual objects, like virtual RAIDs and regions, can be connected to the system as read-only virtual drives. Such drives are visible in and accessible to the system and other programs. (Technician version)
  • Folders, which are symbolic links to other folders (targets), can be shown as links, without showing the content of the targets. (Technician version)
  • Support for deduplication in the NTFS file system created by Windows Server 2019 has been added.
  • Support for the ReFS file system created by Windows Server 2019, including deduplication, has been added.
  • R-Studio Emergency can now run in 64-bit mode and use all available RAM to recover large hard drives.
  • Improvements:
  • The program now recognizes an APFS partition with an erased main files B-Tree.
  • Recognition of NTFS file systems with some wiped parts has been improved.
  • Icons have been redesigned for better resizing on HiDPI screens.
  • Recognition of fat16/32 folders with small numbers (1-2) of files has been improved.
  • Recognition of ext2/3/4 partitions with block sizes

New in R-Studio 6.6 Build 6017 (Oct 28, 2020)

  • R-Studio may have sometimes failed to find NTFS partitions without boot records. Fixed.
  • File previewer didn't correctly display filenames with right to left scripts. Fixed.
  • Sometimes it was hard to distinguish between font and highlight colors. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.5 Build 5939 (Apr 6, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Deleted partitions can be instantly found, without long scan.
  • Files can be recovered or marked for recovery directly from File previewer.
  • The number of read tries for bad sectors can be changed during a disk
  • Operation.
  • Improvements:
  • FAT folders partially damaged within sectors are also enumerated.
  • Bugfixes:
  • No messages appeared in the log when a scan process was interrupted. Fixed.
  • When R-Studio for Mac accessed data inside an already opened part of a multi-part image, a request to open this part may have appeared. Fixed.
  • A multi-part image may have been opened incorrectly if the parts were small. Fixed.
  • Log information may have been incorrect when recovery was interrupted. Fixed.
  • When opening the next in turn part of a multi-part image, it was possible to click the OK button without entering the required file name. The part was lost and no more inquires were issued. Fixed.
  • Sometimes the program may have sent a wrong message about not enough space when the image was written to alternative paths. Fixed.
  • The Advanced Scan dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
  • R-Studio for Mac may have frozen or crashed while opening file systems. Fixed.
  • The best copy of the FAT table for FAT12/16 file systems was determined incorrectly when it was determined sector-wise. Fixed.
  • The path dialog box on the remote computer may have delayed for a long time if there were unaccessible connected network drives. Fixed.
  • R-Studio for Mac may have found waste copies of GPT partitions if a GPT disk was reformatted to an LDM/MBR disk. Fixed.
  • The program may have found some garbage GPT partition entries when those entries were re-written. Fixed. Now R-Studio for Mac checks their validity and cancels invalid records.
  • Partitions could not be copied to an HDD with several partition tables (i.g., a GPT table and some deleted ones). Fixed.
  • An extended debug file system snapshot could not be saved for disks with unsupported encryption methods. Fixed.
  • Several small internal and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
  • Text/hexadecimal editor:
  • The offset field in the GoTo dialog box may have been shown incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Strings may have been truncated on the Find Results panel. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.4 Build 5833 (Nov 25, 2019)

  • R-Studio.app could not be upgraded by dragging it into the Application folder. The previous version had to be moved manually to .Trash and only then the new one could be installed. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed while analyzing damaged Ext4FS file systems. Fixed.
  • Sometimes program didn't switch to new alternative paths when it ran out of free space on the selected device. Fixed.
  • Data in the Find All in the Text/Hexadecimal editor wasn't fully shown until the mouse was dragged over them. Sometimes the panel may have frozen. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.4 Build 5797 (Nov 11, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Support the APFS file system created by macOS Catalina has been added.
  • Support of the APFS Fusion Drive has been added.
  • Several paths can be immediately specified for multiple-volume images.
  • Automatic recognition and assembly of complex disk manager objects whose components are also various disk manager objects. This may be useful for data recovery from various NAS devices.
  • Technician version:
  • Alternative paths can be specified for places to store recovered files and images.
  • Post Action options have been added for unattended operations:
  • . Automatic shutdown once lengthy operations have completed: file recovery, disk scan, and disk imaging. When this option is specified, R-Studio checks that all relevant information (scan info, RAID layouts, etc) has been saved and advanced recovery features specified.
  • . Automatic email notification regarding operation success/failure.
  • Improvements:
  • Updated macOS driver to mount R-Drive Image type (.rdr) images.
  • Search for deleted files has been improved for the Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 file systems.
  • File system reconstruction has been improved for APFS partitions.
  • The Open folder when done option has been added to the Recover dialog box.
  • File enumeration speed has been increased by several dozen times for Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
  • Folder scan to improve folder tree reconstruction on recognized Ext2/3/4 and UFS1/UFS2 partitions.
  • Ext4fs extent reconstruction for large deleted files even if they are not in the file system journal.
  • Network data recovery speed has been increased by several dozen times.
  • Text/hexadecimal editor shows the position on partition for resident files on the Ext4, UFS, HFS+, and APFS file systems, and for compressed files on the HFS+ file systems.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • R-Studio may have opened some partitions with large numbers of files for a long time. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have crashed during performing recheck recovery chances. Fixed.
  • Volume labels may have been detected incorrectly for UFS1 partitions. Fixed.
  • Idle RAID sequences may have appeared when a custom RAID was created. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
  • When an invalid RAID table was applied, the program didn't throw a warning. Fixed.
  • An incorrect minimum number of RAID table lines may have appeared for RAID0 and RAID4. Fixed.
  • The cursor may have moved incorrectly when editing the RAID table. Fixed.
  • Unit fields (TB, GB, MB) in the RAID editor may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Sometimes, R-Studio may have selected an incorrect folder for cross-linked files on FAT file systems. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.3 Build 5571 (May 22, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Get Info panel has been added to the Content pane. Detailed information about a selected file. Extended file information in the Technician version like disk regions, overlapping files, etc.
  • Advanced options have been added to file recovery lists in the Technician version: specific file system info, overlapping files, disk regions, etc.
  • Improvements:
  • Files in Extra Found Files (raw files) can now be automatically excluded from recovery if they are duplicates of files found in the real file system.
  • Support for NTFS cluster sizes from 128KB to 2MB has been added.
  • The algorithm for estimation of file recovery probability has been improved.
  • Memory usage has been optimized and debugged.
  • The Reset button has been added to the RAID Parents tab. It resets RAID parameters to those set by the Apply button.
  • LVM processing has been improved.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • R-Studio may have temporally frozen when opening an NTFS partition with many compressed files. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have opened APFS partitions with many files for a long time. Fixed.
  • The Find Previous Version of the File command may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Mask presets may have loaded incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Date may have changed incorrectly in the File Mask dialog box. Fixed.
  • Multiple files that occupy the same sector may have been shown incorrectly in Text/hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
  • If files were manually unmarked, they could not be marked for recovery using the File/Mark dialog box. Fixed.
  • Existing files may have been shown as deleted in cross-linked folders on FAT32 partitions. Fixed.
  • Some file dates may have been saved to File Mask presets incorrectly. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have crashed when opening disk images. Fixed.
  • The Show Files command in Text/hexadecimal editor may have stopped working if file region enumeration was interrupted by the user. Fixed.
  • The Details/Icons view may have switched incorrectly when switching opened partitions. Fixed.
  • Units in the Size fields on the Find/Mark dialog box were always reset to Bytes. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have frozen or crashed when the Reopen Drive Files button was quickly clicked several times. Fixed.
  • Sometimes mdadm RAIDs could not be automatically assembled from images. Fixed.
  • The Apply changes immediately option could be enabled only on the second attempt. Fixed.
  • Any changes in fthe Block order table defaulted all other RAID parameters. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have frozen when one LDM disk was disconnected and the Reassemble button was clicked.
  • R-Studio may have crashed when Text/Hexadecimal was opened from the Block information window when working with DDI. Fixed.
  • Empty sequences were generated in the Sequences window when the Custom RAID type was selected. Those sequences could not be deleted. Fixed.
  • The last valid RAID block order table was saved rather than the current invalid table. Fixed.
  • The Get Info window showed wrong file info when sorting had been changed. Fixed.
  • Clicking an empty space on the Get Info window opened Hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
  • Files remained marked when files were recovered with the Do not recover duplicate files from Extra Found Files option enabled. Fixed.
  • Not all information on Overlapping files and Regions when saving file names. Fixed.
  • The Find/Mark dialog box didn't preserve selections for the Look At Files/Folders option. Fixed.
  • A file and folder may have the same ID on the time/extension sorting tabs. Clicking such object may have resulted in jumping to another object with the same ID. For example, to a file with an ID randomly coinciding with the ID of a folder. Fixed.
  • Saving file names for marked files didn't save names for files with links in their paths. Only link name was saved without files in the related folder. Fixed.
  • Some small interface and cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.2 Build 5451 (May 10, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Estimation of chances for successful file recovery
  • Recovery of names and paths for files deleted to Recycle Bin and Trash
  • Support for ReFS 3.4 file system
  • Improvements:
  • A complete redesign of the Find/Mark dialog box.
  • The parsing and reconstruction of the FAT32 and NTFS file systems has been improved.
  • The parsing of scanned APFS partitions has been improved, especially for large APFS file systems, for which the decrease of parsing time may reach several thousand times.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • The program may have crashed while recovering damaged UFS2.
  • It was impossible to mark files using the Find/Mark command if those files had been unmarked manually.
  • Time stamps on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Time stamps on the presents on the Define File Mask dialog box may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Values in the Size From field on the Find/Mark dialog box was constantly switching to bytes.
  • File previewer didn't work on some Linux distros. Fixed.
  • The Find Previous Version of the File command may have not worked. Fixed.
  • Large ext4 file systems (60+TB) may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Sometimes the program may have crashed or frozen during file enumeration and disk scan. Fixed.
  • The program may have written data to network drives incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Sometimes file systems on automatically created virtual RAIDs may have been created incorrectly when the RAID parents were disk images. Fixed.
  • Some encrypted APFS disks could not be opened. Fixed.
  • No files (recovered, scan info, image) could be save to connected network drives or to any place defined as a UNC path (\serversharepath). Fixed.
  • The View/Edit command status (enable/disable) may have been incorrectly set. Fixed.
  • Details/Small/Medium/Large Icons button status wasn't preserved during switching between opened file panels. Fixed.
  • Program Uninstall wasn't digitally signed. Fixed.
  • The Ignore file mask option was working incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Some corrections have been made to various localizations.
  • Some cosmetic fixes.

New in R-Studio 6.1 Build 5307 (Jul 21, 2018)

  • New features:
  • A completely overhauled file previewer which can now show picture tiles and first frames of video files as icons, and supports a large number of video/audio/graphic/document file formats. These files can now be played back without their respective applications installed.
  • Improvements:
  • Processing of APFS file systems has been improved.
  • Bug fixes:
  • File enumeration on huge APFS file systems may have been slow. Fixed.
  • Non-resident symlinks may have been parsed incorrectly on NTFS file systems. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed when an advanced mask was used. Fixed.
  • The Parents tab may have disappeared when an rdr-compatible image was added to a virtual RAID. Fixed.
  • 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.
  • Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

New in R-Studio 6.0 Build 5230 (Jun 14, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Support has been added for APFS (including encryption), a new Apple file system introduced in macOS High Sierra.
  • Direct access to the system disk even when Apple's System Integration Protection is enabled.
  • Compressed images (the R-Drive Image type, .rdi) can now be mounted in the system as virtual devices to make them accessible for other software.
  • Improvements:
  • Folder tree reconstruction has been improved for supported file systems.
  • User's known file types immediately become marked upon loading.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • When a Reverse RAID had been created for an object and then deleted, the Delete Reverse RAID command remained active for that object, and the Create Reverse RAID command inactive. Fixed.
  • Icons of deleted objects may have remained in the Drives panel. Fixed.
  • Sometimes the red highlighting of incorrect values may have flashed even when correct values were entered. Fixed.
  • The Find Previous button may have remained active when the search reached the last match. When the button was clicked the last match was highlighted again. Fixed. Now the message that the search is over is thrown.
  • The Reload User's File Types button on the Setting/Known File Types tab was active even when there was no user's file types loaded. Fixed.
  • If the user's known file types were not saved, all known file types may have become unchecked during disk imaging and simultaneous scanning. Fixed.
  • R-Studio may have frozen while working with a remote computer. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 5.5.5 Build 5079 (May 6, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Detection of FAT32 disks has been improved.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • If a reverse RAID for an object was deleted, the Delete Reverse RAID command may have remained active for that object and the Create Reverse RAID command inactive. Fixed.
  • Icons and parameters of deleted objects may have remained in the Drives panel. Fixed.
  • Manually added custom file types may have not been selected automatically. Fixed.
  • The Edit command may have been enabled for regions. Fixed.
  • The Reload User's File Types button may have been active even when no user file types were loaded. Fixed.
  • The program may have crashed during disk scan. Fixed.
  • The Drive panel may have shown "ghost" logical disks created by Windows. Fixed.
  • The file viewer may have frozen while playing a movie file. Fixed.
  • Several bugs in the file viewer have been fixed.
  • The program may have confused a real multi-parent object (a Windows Storage Space, LVM, etc.) and its image. Fixed.
  • RAID6 and mdadm/LVM containers may have been processed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • An already unlocked Apple CoreStorage may have been unlocked again. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 5.5.5 Build 5017 (Dec 23, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Support for Windows Storage Spaces created by Windows Fall Creators Update has been added.
  • Components management for various disk and volume managers (LVM, LDM, WSS, AppleRAID, etc.) has been added.
  • Drive auto-refresh can now be enabled/disabled. This feature is useful when a failing drive is connected.
  • Improvements:
  • Processing speed of the NTFS file system has been increased.
  • Processing of NTFS $BitMap file has been improved.
  • Improved processing of FAT/exFAT partitions.
  • Bug-fixes:
  • Local time zones were not taken into account when comparing file time stamps. Fixed.
  • Dependent file types were selected incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Files from transacted NTFS systems may have recovered incorrectly. Fixed.
  • The Mark command on the Tools menu may have become inactive after manual unmarking. Fixed.
  • During program closure removable devices may have been blocked until the process had been finished. Fixed.
  • During startup R-Studio requested IDE info from USB disks which resulted in a long delay. Fixed.
  • The "Select All" button on the Known File Types tab may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • When recovering files from a remote computer, the Recover Marked command recovered not only marked files in their folder, but all files in all folders up to the device root. Fixed.
  • Sometimes folder/file tree on the HFSfile system may have been re-constructed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • R-Studio asked the user if the hidden and/or system file attributes should be removed when such files are set to not be shown in the system. Now this question is always asked regardless of those settings.
  • Log message filtering worked incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Changes in the Advanced section of the Find/Mark dialog box were saved even this section was disabled. Fixed.
  • Long text strings might be truncated in the Log pane and some dialog boxes. Fixed.
  • The number of files shown in the "Total files searched" field might be incorrect. Fixed.
  • Excessive files might be marked in Extra Found Files. Fixed.
  • The File Mask dialog box didn't store mask history. Fixed.
  • A removed object (a deleted virtual RAID or disconnected USB drive) might remain opened in the Text/hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
  • The Text/hexadecimal editor remained opened when R-Studio was closed. Fixed.
  • Find/Mark dialog box sored some advanced options, even when they were disabled. Fixed.
  • "View/Edit..." command was enabled for virtual folders of file types in the Raw Files section. Fixed.
  • Log didn't show the results of the "Mark matched files" and "Unmark matched files" commands. Fixed.
  • "Total files searched" values in the Find Results panel were incorrect. Fixed.
  • Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.

New in R-Studio 5.3 Build 4817 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Automatic check for new versions
  • Improved preview for video files
  • Improved preview for pdf files
  • Bug fixes:
  • Several internal fixes

New in R-Studio 5.2 Build 4717 (Mar 8, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Support for the ReFS2 + file system (Windows 2016 Server);
  • Support for NTFS deduplication;
  • New extended duplicate file processing options.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved support for the NTFS log;
  • Extended recovery log;
  • Improved data copying in Hexadecimal editor;
  • A file path can be scrolled and copied in the "File already exists" dialog box.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Data copy commands might work incorrectly on the Properties tab. Fixed.
  • Time zones were not taken into account when sorting files by time, files might appear in the previous day. Fixed.
  • File Signature editor incorrectly interpreted hex values. Fixed.
  • Some first messages were missed in the log. Fixed.
  • Several fixes in recognized FAT partition processing.
  • Several fixes in scanning and processing of recognized NTFS partitions.
  • Some fixes in image creation of UFS partitions.
  • Internal fixes and improvements.

New in R-Studio 5.0 Build 3663 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Enhanced exclusive region controls.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Some folders might be lost during recovery of symlinked folders. Fixed.
  • The hidden attributes message might appear during Extra Found Files recovery when the Restore folder structure and Restore from root options were enabled. Fixed.
  • Selected Known File Types could be changed only from the Settings tabs.
  • Changes in customer's known file types were not applied immediately. Fixed.
  • Region parameters were edited and created incorrectly. Fixed.
  • R-Studio might start disk scan even when no file system and no known file types were selected.
  • Cosmetics:
  • The overall progress bar was not always be shown during data recovery. Fixed.
  • Dialog boxes drop their values when the value changed from KB to GB
  • RAIDs
  • R-Studio might crashed when saving RAID0 and RAID1E description files. Fixed.
  • R-Studio might not load customer's RAID description files. Fixed.
  • Parity settings might overwrite the number of rows. Fixed.
  • Many cosmetic bugs were fixed.

New in R-Studio 5.0 Build 3621 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • R-Studio might crash during disk scan. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 5.0 Build 3606 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • New features:
  • A new advanced algorithm for recovering exFAT partitions.
  • A new advanced algorithm for raw file recovery (search for file signatures) with regularly checked and updated file signature database.
  • Support for unsyncronized Windows software RAIDs.
  • Support for Windows Storage Spaces created in Windows 10 Threshold 2.
  • Improvements:
  • RAID layout description files now store actual RAID parents. They can be automatically loaded into the RAID parents from the Drives list.
  • Changes:
  • A new format for RAID layout description files. The old RAID layout description files are still supported.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes R-Studio could not find exFAT partitions during disk scan. Fixed.
  • Custom offsets were selected incorrectly during automatic RAID parameter recognition. Fixed.
  • When the Apply button became active after some changes in the RAID layout, it was necessary to click twice the Apply changes immediately option to activate it. Fixed.
  • It was impossible to select Custom in the Block order option when a RAID layout type was selected. Fixed.
  • Some cosmetic and localization bug fixes.
  • Build-in editor:
  • The editor showed incorrect Windows time, DOS time, and Unix time. Fixed.
  • Custom templates could not be loaded. Fixed.
  • The editor hanged when trying to write something to Sector 0 in an off-line disk. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 4.9 Build 3480 (Oct 11, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Custom RAID layouts are created now a bit differently.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes a search for a file operation might result in a program crash. Fixed.
  • File search for recursively interlinked files in Directory Junctions might result in an endless cycle. Fixed.
  • Sometimes it was impossible to create a custom RAID layout. Fixed.
  • Some RAID description files could be loaded incorrectly. Fixed.
  • Large Windows Storage Spaces (dozens of TBs) were processed incorrectly. Fixed.
  • While checking RAID consistency, R-Studio showed sectors with 0 as consistent data (green), although it should be white. Fixed.
  • A large file (within the size of the changes buffer) was loaded from, and saved to, the disk very slowly. Fixed.
  • When some changes were made for a virtual RAID, the Apply changes immediately option sets only after a second click. Fixed.
  • Several cosmetic bug fixes.

New in R-Studio 4.9 Build 3437 (Sep 1, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Improved emergency startup for Mac computers.
  • An 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:
  • Support for storage spaces in windows 10 RTM
  • Improved support for NTFS $LogFile
  • Improved file recovery from FAT32 disks
  • The log data can now be appended to an existing file.
  • Now R-Studio shows extra files found by their file signature both in the Raw Files folder and in recognized partitions.
  • The file recovery algorithm has been optimized.
  • When enumerating files on a FAT partition, R-Studio detects deleted files which cannot be correctly located due to corruptions in file systems made by Windows when it deletes a large number of files. In this case R-Studio throws a warning asking the user to scan the disk to locate those files correctly.
  • Improved support for BIOS RAID in R-Studio Emergency and R-Studio Agent Emergency
  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes R-Studio recovered simlinks as separate folders with the same content. Fixed.
  • R-Studio might crash when many images were open one after another. Fixed.
  • The Load/Save files list command might not work when files were sorted by extension or time stamps. Fixed.
  • Several cosmetic fixes for the Settings dialog box.
  • Cosmetic fixes for the S.M.A.R.T. tab.
  • Slow recovery of many small files (>10,000). Fixed.
  • Directory Junctions weren’t showed correctly under Windows. Fixed.
  • The Save File Names to File didn’t work on the extension and time sorting tabs. Fixed.
  • After the Load File Names command R-Studio switched to the tab from which the file names were saved. Fixed.
  • The Add to RAID menu didn’t have scrolling. Fixed.
  • R-Studio might not show the overall data recovery progress. Fixed.
  • R-Studio sometimes didn’t show correctly progress for some operations like partition opening, imaging. Fixed.
  • When working with DDI, the information in the Status: B/C column might disappear when switching the file sorting tabs (extension, times). Fixed.
  • Sometimes R-Studio showed folders deleted from the root folder in Extra Found Files rather than in the root folder. Fixed.
  • RAID consistency check once stopped could not be continued. Fixed.
  • 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.
  • Hexadecimal editor:
  • The changes buffer might work sloppy for very many changes. Fixed.
  • An extra right character was saved to the file when a command Save to Hexadecimal File was performed for a selected area. Fixed.
  • The Text/hexadecimal editor sometimes didn’t refresh its status bar. Fixed.
  • The cursor might slightly get onto the next character. Fixed.
  • Search was conducted over unchanged data if changes in the data had not been saved.
  • DeepSpar integration:
  • When performing the Refresh command on the shortcut menu, R-Studio refreshed the previous DeepSpar disk. Fixed.
  • R-Studio didn’t unmark files after the Clone marked file sectors command had been performed for DeepSpar disks. Fixed.
  • The Clone file sectors command didn’t work when files were sorted by extension or timestamps. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 4.8 Build 3262 (Feb 23, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Accelerated disk scan for fast-read devices.
  • Search for deleted file versions. R-Studio can search for deleted file versions using their sizes, names and extensions, and recognized file types as the search parameters.
  • Improvements:
  • More reliable and significantly faster recognition of NTFS and FAT partitions.
  • Files found using both search for known file types and file record analysis are now shown only in the file/folder structure.
  • Improved data selection in the Hexadecimal editor. Now the beginning and end of the area to be selected can be set by the Select from and Select to commands in the shortcut menu.
  • Appending data to an existing file in the Hexadecimal editor. A file fragment selected in the editor can be appended to an existing file.
  • An external file can be loaded to a selected position in the file opened in the Hexadecimal editor.
  • The Hexadecimal editor shows the serial number for the parent hard drive when editing a virtual RAID.
  • The Hexadecimal editor shows now a search position together with the progress bar.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes scan might freeze. Fixed.
  • When a created virtual object like a region, RAID, image, etc, was deleted, its scan info remained somewhere under the root object Local Computer, and no command can be executed upon that info. Fixed, now R-Studio asks to save that scan info before deleting the object.
  • When a connection to a remote computer was lost, all open tabs (disks or partitions) from that computer remained in R-Studio. Fixed.
  • Incorrect log data for file recovery in the Demo mode: all files were counted as recovered, even they could not recover due to Demo mode restrictions. Fixed.
  • Names, Labels, and File Systems were lost for objects in an exclusive region when it was edited. Fixed.
  • It was impossible to enter hex values in the offset field in the Hexadecimal editor. Fixed.
  • Sometimes data search didn't work in the Hexadecimal editor, and it was impossible to stop it. Fixed.
  • Some settings like a path to the user's known file type file were GUI language-dependent. When the language was changed, they got lost, when the language was changed back, they appeared again. Fixed.
  • Sometimes “Error creating system snap shot for...” appeared in the log when a FS Snapshot was created. Fixed.

New in R-Studio 4.7 Build 3158 (Dec 3, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Support for Apple software RAIDs created by the 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 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 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.

New in R-Studio 2.5 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • 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.