Hi, I need to recover a folder with all my pictures from my external hard drive (windows xp), western digital passport hard drive. I accentually shift deleted it and it's the only copy I have. I found this: external hard drive tool and downloaded it. I installed it and scanned my external drive, it found my files but to fully recover them I need to pay about $40 - they don't mention the price on the site but I don't mind paying if it actually going to work. I just wanted to check if MS offer a free data recovery tool instead of this paid one? Hope someone can help. Thanks