AIC File Recovery

Most of the time your computer needs to be protected from people rather than malicious software. Important files can be intentionally or accidentally removed from your hard disk drive. Luckily, applications like AIC File Recovery give you the possibility to bring back deleted files from your hard disk drive or an external storage device.

Set up a few options before searching

The application is incredibly lightweight, with no extra features than the core ones. From the start, a compact window is brought up, requiring you to select the disk drive to be scanned. Moreover, you can select the type of file to be targeted, or include a custom extension. The size can also be specified in KB, MB or GB.

Select files to recover and specify where

Once previously mentioned settings are applied, hitting the “Find Deleted Files” button puts the process in motion. Unfortunately, regardless of the conditions selected in the first step, the scan process seems to take forever.
Search result is displayed in a list, next to each file name being size and path. In case you know very little about the lost files, it tends to get a little difficult to spot. There is no implemented search engine to quickly fetch the file, nor the possibility to sort by any criteria.
Furthermore, you are not able to select all files and have them recovered, leaving you to manually pick each one. The recovery process only takes a few moments, with a list showing files and state.

To end with

All in all, AIC File Recovery can help you bring files back from the virtual grave. The design leaves nothing more to be desired, getting the job done in a few easy steps. It lacks several advanced features which could have made it a pro and the scan process takes a little too much time, but it comes in handy if you quickly need to recover lost files.