Due to the variety of types of errors and possible causes of data loss, I find that -throughout the recovery process- the more options you set by yourself (requiring knowledge and experience in hard drives and file systems) the more efficient the process is. So, no matter the tool you choose, try to provide as much info to the tool as possible, and don't rely on the software developer(s) to choose a best general case which will always work...

I don't think that MS really wants to lose tons of users, because I am from Syria and switching the country in my profile re-granted my access to the Messenger service.

I got a feeling that ideas like this and like the "XP mode" are related to Bill Gates no longer being the CEO.

They say that a word is worth a thousand pictures. Wait