is it totally dead as in not doing anything or can you see something.
if the contents are really important to you then expect to pay a lot to get the data recovered.

might help
https://partedmagic.com/#.UWGZsJMqZTo
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/data-r...-recovery.html
stolen from
http://bbs.scoobynet.com/computer-an...-recovery.html