Puran File Recovery

Puran File Recovery is a straightforward piece of software designed to help users recover files that were lost or accidentally deleted from the computer. It comes packed with standard settings for all user levels.

Setting it up takes little time and minimal effort. Its interface is made from a clean window with a well-structured layout, where you can specify the target drive to scan. Unfortunately, it is not possible to establish file masks prior to scanning.

Results include the file names along with their size and recovery condition. Users are able to directly examine content type via hexadecimal display. However, it is not possible to preview images or documents.

Files can be filtered in the list by type: pictures, music, documents, videos, or compressed. In order to recover one or more selected items (with or without their original folder structure, or with custom size), it is required to specify the output directory (preferably different than the source drive).

If Puran File Recovery did not manage to find the targeted files after the first run, it is recommended to enable a deep scan. Although it takes a longer time, this method is more thorough. In addition to it, Puran File Recovery can perform a full scan, find lost files, and scan the custom list.

Unfortunately, the tool failed in its attempt to reconstruct the file content of some images during our tests after recovering them, although they were marked with an excellent condition.

Puran File Recovery quickly finishes a scan-and-recover job, has a good response time and uses a pretty low amount of CPU and RAM, so it does not affect the computer's overall performance. We have not come across any issues in our tests, since the program did not hang or crash. However, users should look for more reliable data recovery applications, such as Piriform's Recuva.