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Vow File Search
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- Free: Unlimited file name search on every drive, 10 searches inside files a day
- $4.95 once: Unlimited searches inside files, network drives and NAS shares
Vow File Recovery
Undelete files and photos on Windows
Deleted it? Formatted it? Look first. Then get it back.
Pick the drive, card or USB stick the files were on. Deleted files appear within seconds with their names, folders and dates, and every one can be previewed free. Recover up to 500 MB every day at no cost, to another drive, with nothing uploaded.
- No ads
- No malware
- No account
- Light & dark theme
- Every scan and preview, 500 MB of recovered files a day
No ads. Ever.No pop-ups, no banners, no "offers".
No malware or bundlewareThe installer installs one thing: this app.
No account, no uploadIt works on your PC, and your files stay there.
Free daily limits, just $9.95 unlimitedNo subscription. No trial that runs out.
The problem
"Free" recovery apps love a surprise bill
You just lost the holiday photos. The last thing you need is a scan that finds everything and then refuses to give any of it back.
Scan free, pay to save
The scan proudly lists thousands of files, then every single one is locked behind a licence you only find out about at the end.
Yearly plans for a one-off
Most people need recovery once in a blue moon, yet many apps sell it as a subscription that renews whether you lose anything or not.
No idea what will open
Thumbnails that never load and a guess at what survived. You only learn a photo is broken after you have paid for it.
file001.jpg, file002.jpg...
Names, folders and dates thrown away, leaving a heap of numbered files to sort through by hand.
Saving over what you're saving
Install or recover onto the same drive and the new files can land right on top of the deleted ones you came for.
Downloads you can't trust
Fake "recovery" tools with bundled extras and pop-ups, at the exact moment you are most likely to click anything.
Vow File Recovery fixes all of it.
How it works
Pick. Preview. Recover.
Your files on screen in seconds, checked before you save them, and the original drive left untouched.
- 01
Pick the drive
Choose the drive, memory card or USB stick the files were on. Cards and sticks come first, and a disk image can be dropped on the window instead.
Pick the drive, card or stick the files were on - 02
Look and preview
Deleted files appear within seconds, with names, folders and dates, while the deep scan finds more by their content. Open any photo, video, PDF or document free.
- 03
Recover to another drive
Tick what you want and press Recover. Files go back into their original folders with their original dates, never onto the drive you recover from.
Keep original folders and dates, and write a recovery report
Features
A recovery lab's toolkit, in plain words
For the emptied Recycle Bin, the wiped camera card and the drive that suddenly says RAW.
Quick scan and deep scan
Reads NTFS, FAT and exFAT records for names and folders, then searches the free space for 60+ file types by their structure.
Preview every file, free
Photos (also camera RAW), videos, music, PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint text, archives or raw bytes, read from memory.
Recycle Bin names back
Files emptied from the bin get their original name and folder back, and anything still in the bin is put back in one click.
Formatted cards and sticks
After a quick format, camera photos in DCIM folders come back with their names, not as numbered leftovers.
Honest chances
Every file is rated Excellent, Good, Poor or Overwritten with the reason, including space an SSD has already erased.
Never writes to the source
The drive is opened read-only and Vow refuses to save onto the drive you recover from. A portable version can run from a USB stick.
Lost partitions and RAW drives
Reads MBR and GPT disks, finds deleted partitions by their boot sectors and opens drives Windows calls RAW.
Disk images too
Opens raw, split, E01, VHD and VHDX images, and saves a finished scan to open again weeks later without scanning.
Folders, dates and a report
Recovered files keep their folders and dates, with a CSV report listing each file's original path, chance and SHA-256.
Light and dark theme
Switch between the paper-white and carbon-dark look with one click on the side rail; your choice is remembered.
Light & dark theme
Easy on the eyes, day or night.
File Recovery comes with a crisp light theme and a calm dark theme. Switch with one click, or let it follow your Windows setting by itself. It remembers your choice.
- LightClear and bright for daytime and busy offices
- DarkGentle on tired eyes late at night
- Follow WindowsChanges by itself when your PC does
Screenshots
See Vow File Recovery in action
Real screenshots of the real app, in both of its themes: 8 light, 8 dark. Click any picture to see it full size.
Light theme
Dark theme
Who it's for
When a file goes missing
An emptied Recycle Bin
Get back files deleted with Shift+Delete or emptied from the bin, with their names and folders.
A wiped camera card
Bring back photos and videos from an SD card that was formatted or cleared by mistake.
A USB stick that was formatted
Recover documents and photos from a stick or external drive after a quick format.
"You need to format the disk"
Read the files on a drive Windows calls RAW before you let anything format it.
A deleted partition
Find a partition removed by accident and browse its files as if it were still there.
Helping family and friends
Run the portable version from a USB stick, so nothing is installed on the drive with the lost files.
Compare
Vow File Recovery vs typical recovery apps
What you get when you search for "recover deleted files" and click the first download.
| Feature | Vow File Recovery | Typical file recovery apps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 500 MB free every day, or $9.95 once | Often a yearly plan to save anything |
| Preview before you pay | Every file, free | Sometimes, often limited |
| Free allowance renews | Every day | Usually a one-off amount |
| Original names after emptying the bin | Yes, from the bin's own records | Often lost |
| Saving onto the source drive | Refused, to protect your files | Often allowed |
| Honest recovery chances | Checked against the content, SSD-aware | Varies |
| Ads, bundled extras | None, ever | Common with free downloads |
| Runs from a USB stick | Yes, portable version included | Sometimes |
"Typical" describes what we found across the most-downloaded alternatives when we built File Recovery. Your mileage with any one of them may vary; ours won't.
Pricing
Free every day. Just $9.95 once for the lot.
That is not a typo. Software this powerful usually means a monthly subscription; File Recovery is $9.95, once, for life: it's almost a giveaway. Use it free for as long as you like, and unlock Unlimited only if you need more.
Free
$0forever
Every scan and preview, 500 MB of recovered files a day.
- Every quick and deep scan, any drive or card
- Preview every file found before recovering
- 500 MB of recovered files a day (resets at midnight)
- Recycle Bin restore, lost partitions, drive health
- Saved results and disk images, including E01 and VHDX
- No watermarks, no sign-up, no expiry
Best valueUnlimited
$9.95USD, once. Yours for life.
Almost a giveaway. Less than a takeaway lunch for software this powerful: no subscription, no renewals, yours for life on 2 PCs.
Recover any amount every day, plus drive imaging.
- Recover any amount, every day
- Whole photo libraries, videos and full drives at once
- Drive imaging: copy a failing drive byte for byte
- Unreadable sectors skipped, counted and hashed
- One payment, yours for life on 2 PCs
- Every future update included
How unlocking works
- 1Use it free first Install Vow File Recovery and use it on your own files. No card, no account, no time limit.
- 2Click "Unlimited" in the app Pay $9.95 USD once by card, securely through Stripe in your browser.
- 3It unlocks itself Within seconds, for life, on up to 2 of your PCs. Your license key is emailed to you, and every future update is included.
Payments by Stripe: we never see or store your card. Questions? Ask a real person.
Clean software
Safe to install. Nothing else comes with it.
Most "free" Windows downloads pay for themselves with ads, bundled extras or your data. Vow File Recovery doesn't need to: it's paid for honestly, once, by the people who find it useful.
Download File Recovery free- No ads, toolbars or "offers"The installer installs one thing: Vow File Recovery. No pre-ticked boxes to watch out for.
- No administrator rights neededIt installs just for you, in your own user folder, and leaves the rest of Windows alone.
- Nothing running in the backgroundNo startup programs, no tray nags, no services. When you close it, it's closed.
- Everything includedAll it needs is inside the installer, so you never have to fetch a "required component" from somewhere else.
- Uninstalls cleanlyOne click in Windows Settings > Apps. Your own files are never touched.
- A real company behind itMade, published and supported by XTO Pty Ltd, an Australian company, with real people answering every message.
Step-by-step guide
How to recover deleted files on Windows
From "it's gone" to files back in their folders, without writing a byte to the drive they were on.
Step 1: get it freeStop using the drive
Every new file can land on the space a deleted one is still waiting in. If the files were on C:, run the portable version from another drive or a USB stick.
Open Vow File Recovery and pick the drive
Click the drive, card or stick the files were on. Windows asks once for permission to read it directly; Vow only reads.
Browse what was found
Deleted files appear in seconds, then the deep scan adds more. Filter by pictures, videos or documents, search by name, or show only good chances.
Preview before you choose
Click any file to see it: photos, videos, PDFs and document text open right in the window, free, with the reason for its chance.
Recover to another drive
Tick the files and press Recover. They go into a new folder on another drive, in their original folders with their original dates and a CSV report.
Technical details
File Recovery at a glance
- Works on
- Windows 10 (1809+) and Windows 11, 64-bit
- File systems
- NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, plus deep scan of any drive
- Deep scan
- 27 file families, 60+ file types, exact lengths
- Disk images
- Raw, split .001, E01, VHD, VHDX
- Free recovery
- 500 MB a day, resets at midnight
- Portable
- Yes: runs from a USB stick
- Install
- Per-user, no administrator rights, no account
- Languages
- English
- Theme
- Light, dark or follow Windows: one click to switch
- Version
- 1.0.0, released 2 November 2026
- Publisher
- XTO Pty Ltd (Australia)
FAQ
Questions about File Recovery
Is Vow File Recovery really free?
Yes. Every scan, quick and deep, the preview of every file found, the Recycle Bin, lost partitions and saved results are free, and you can recover 500 MB of files every day at no cost. There are no watermarks and no sign-up. Unlimited, a one-time $9.95 USD payment, removes the daily limit and adds drive imaging.
Can it recover files after I emptied the Recycle Bin?
Yes, as long as the space has not been written over. On NTFS drives it also reads the bin's own records, so files emptied from the Recycle Bin come back with their original name and folder.
Can it recover photos from a formatted SD card?
Usually, yes. After a quick format it finds the old folders, so photos in DCIM folders come back with their names, and the deep scan finds pictures and videos by their content even when no name survived.
Will scanning change my drive?
No. The drive is opened read-only, previews are read into memory, and Vow refuses to recover onto the drive you are recovering from. Recovered files always go to another drive.
How do I know a file will open?
Preview it first. Every file also gets a chance, Excellent, Good, Poor or Overwritten, worked out from the drive's records and a check of the file's first bytes, including space an SSD has already erased.
How is it different from Recuva, Disk Drill or EaseUS?
It covers the same core: quick and deep scans, previews, lost partitions and disk images. It adds original names for files emptied from the Recycle Bin, names after a FAT quick format, SSD-aware chances, a refusal to save onto the source drive, and a free allowance of 500 MB that renews every day.
What can it recover from?
Internal drives, external drives, USB sticks and memory cards formatted as NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 or exFAT, drives Windows calls RAW, deleted partitions, and disk images: raw, split, E01, VHD and VHDX.
Is it safe to install?
Yes. It is made and published by XTO Pty Ltd, an Australian company. The installer contains no ads, no toolbars and no bundled software, needs no administrator rights, and uninstalls cleanly from Windows Settings. A portable version runs without installing at all.
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Get deleted photos and files back, and see them before you pay a cent. Free to use every day, $9.95 once if you ever want Unlimited.
- No ads
- No malware
- No account
- No subscription