- 2015
Overall Product Rating: 4.6
Excellent localization support, a good interface that combines wizard and non-wizard modes, a very interesting file previewer, and quite good file recovery performance. Recover My Files can be upgraded to the Professional version with support for more file systems, RAIDs, etc.
Disk imaging and copying: 5.5Compare
Image types: byte-by-byte and compressed.
Parameters specified: Image area and compression ratio.
Deep analysis of disks (disk scan): 3.0Compare
Hard drives and logical disks can be scanned. Scan range and file systems can be specified. Scan results can be stored and then loaded later.
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 4.5Compare
This feature exists with a pre-defined file signature set. The user can select which file types are to be included. Can be used alone, as an alternative file recovery method. The raw file size can be limited.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 5.0Compare
Search parameters: “Show only deleted files”, individual file search/mark for recovery, file mask search/mark for recovery, file search for date, file search for size. Files can be sorted by extension and date.
File recovery parameters: 4.0Compare
Recovers file names and the folder structure. Recovery of empty folders and zero-sized and deleted files can be disabled.
Logging: 4.0Compare
Standard logging at various levels: None, Verbose, Debug. The log can be printed.
User interface: 4.0Compare
Combination of wizard and non-wizard interfaces with the sufficient recovery parameters for most DIY file recovery tasks.
Localization support: 6.0Compare
Languages supported: English, Dutch (Netherlands), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Language management: A separate installation file for each language.
Localization support: 6.0Compare
Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.
File preview: 5.0Compare
The built-in previewer can show many file types. Previewed files can be printed and copied. Gallery View shows all images as a gallery.
File recovery performance
FAT file system: 4.5Compare
Recently deleted files: The program recovered all files with their original names. Previously deleted files: The program could find many files but we could not successfully recover them.
NTFS file system: 4.5Compare
Recently deleted files: The program successfully recovered all test files, but their names were changed. We could not recover the deleted folder.
Previously deleted files: The program could find and successfully recover some files.
A FAT16 partition reformatted to a new FAT16 partition of the same size: 3.0Compare
Files found in raw files and successfully recovered: 2 jpg, doc, xls, zip, pdf, avi, exe
Files split in several parts: mp3 and txt
A FAT32 partition reformatted to a new FAT32 partition of the same size: 3.0Compare
Files found in raw files and successfully recovered: doc, zip, 2 jpg, pdf, xls, avi, exe
Files split in several parts: mp3 and txt
An NTFS partition reformatted to a new NTFS partition of the same size: 3.0Compare
Raw files found and successfully recovered: jpg, avi, zip, pdf, doc, xls
Files split in several parts: p3 and txt
A FAT32 partition reformatted to a new NTFS partition of the same size: 3.5Compare
Raw files found and successfully recovered: 2 jpg, xls, pdf, avi, exe, doc, zip
Files split in several parts: mp3, txt
An NTFS partition reformatted to a new FAT32 partition of the same size.: 6.0Compare
Successfully recovered all files and the folder with its original name.
An NTFS partition reformatted to a new FAT32 partition of the same size.: 5.0Compare
The program discovered 2 partitions: 3 GB and 4 GB. The files were found in both partitions, but could only be successfully recovered from the second partition. Almost all files and the folder with its original name could be recovered.
Files recovered incorrectly: avi and one jpg.
An NTFS partition reformatted to a new NTFS partition of the same size: 3.5Compare
Raw files found and successfully recovered: jpg, avi, zip, pdf, doc, xls Files split in several parts: mp3 and txt
A damaged NTFS file system: 4.0Compare
Raw files found and successfully recovered: 2 jpg, doc, xls, zip, pdf, avi, exe
Files split in several parts: mp3, txt
A damaged FAT32 file system: 4.0Compare
The file system was immediately recognized after disk scan. All files were found and successfully recovered with the original folder.
NTFS partition deleted from a 2 GB disk using Windows Disk Management: 6.0Compare
The program successfully recovered all files with their original folder.
