FetchBoy Professional

For system administrators in offices, the need to manage data from different systems is a pressing task. Add to worries of hard disk crashes and consequent data retrieval actions they need to take, the need for a comprehensive disk management utility is often felt. The FetchBoy Professional 5.14 is designed to meet such needs and works as top of the line backup recovery and disk management tool. It can be used to construct RAID arrays for ensuring your data is always available for line of business applications. It also features cutting edge tools like a Hex viewer and has the capacity to handle virtual disk drives.

The FetchBoy Professional 5.14 sports a rather well structured and is fairly easy to operate for an IT professional. However this tool is clearly not suited for novice users looking to recover data from their personal computers. The application is loaded with complex options and allows a trained hand to achieve regular backups across several machines in an effective manner. When it comes to data recovery and disk checks, it state of the art error analysis and correction techniques can recover faulty segments in quick time and recover all data elements. The tool can bring back data from a partition even after has been formatted without much ado. Given the fact that is has several encompassed functions, the application ships with a manual which can be accessed from the top pane. The version we tried out was for Windows and there are editions available for both Mac and Linux systems.

On account of its extensive set of well thought out features, the FetchBoy Professional 5.14 application is marked with an appreciable score of four rating stars. This versatile application can easily serve as the cornerstone of a data recovery contingency plan in small offices.

FetchBoy Professional is a comprehensive package of file and data recovery tools to meet the needs of professionals. It brings together data analysis and file management with cutting edge data recovery. FetchBoy Pro groups and manages those powerful tools so managing multiple, complex tasks is quick and straightforward.
The disk management tools will automatically define storages and open disk images, RAID configurations and virtual disks. The Hex-Viewer and Editor tools allow you to view and alter data on disks or disk partitions. Even severe file system damage can be repaired.
The RAID tools handle RAID construction and recovery and allow you to alter data on the recovery storage. You will be able to build standard and custom RAID configurations.
Technical Features
The software can be installed to several operating systems - Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Linux.
Disk images and virtual disks
FetchBoy Pro can handle disk images and virtual disks from leading vendors including VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware ESX Server, VMware Fusion, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Hyper-V and Parallels Desktop. It operates virtual disks and disk image files exactly as if they were physical disks.
Recovery after file system format
FetchBoy Pro detects previous versions of a disk that has been reformatted and even detects previous file system variants. More importantly, you are able to choose older versions of the file system to access for recovery.
Data consistency analysis and error correction
FetchBoy Pro analyses data consistency and makes it possible to correct even serious file system issues. It locates file/folder descriptors and file/folder fragments allowing you to navigate through them. FetchBoy Pro will identify and correct faulty file fragments. Key to this is the write-enabled hexadecimal editor that enables you to fix directory entries, move superblocks and fix inodes.