I need help with photos and iPod

I put a bunch of my pictures on my iPod to view them. They were saved onto an external harddrive, which is now dead. How can I get the pictures from my iPod back onto my computer?
  Windows XP  

Is there a program thats free? Im fine with this one
if now, its just I have a ton to get back and the 25
per day is kind of low.
That's the only one I know of. You might want to try searching on Google or a similar search engine.
evangosensgo,
No, I don't work for Apple
btabz

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