Recover4all Professional

Recover4all Professional is a simple-to-use program that can retrieve files which have been lost or deleted from your hard drive.

This is a portable tool, so installing Recover4all Professional is not required. It means that you can store the app on a USB flash drive or any other removable device, save it to any computer and directly run its executable file. The Windows registry is not accessed and no leftover files can be found after program removal.

The interface of the application is based on a standard window and has an uncomplicated but dull layout. Recover4all Professional automatically starts the scanning procedure once you select the target drive.

During the file identification process you can check out a progress bar, progress percentage and number of found files items.

Results are displayed on the right pane where you can check out the name, size, recovery chances and start sector of each discovered file. All you have to do is specify the output drive (different from the scanned drive) and let Recover4all Professional take care of the rest. You can make the app locate long FAT filenames and include empty files, as well as disable the thumbnail view.

The straightforward program uses a moderate amount of CPU and system memory, has a good response time and finishes the scanning procedure in reasonable time (depending on the size of the target drive). We have not come any errors in our tests and Recover4all Professional did not freeze or crash.

On the other hand, you cannot customize a filter for the scanning operation, use a standard search function for the found files or preview file content. Also, Recover4all Professional is unusable if your hard drive is unpartitioned and you don't have removable storage units. The interface needs some major improvements as well.