Data recovery is hugely expensive , if you can find an identical hard drive you may be able to find a technician who can swap the magnetic platters , however the first step is to buy an external enclosure that connects to USB and put the hard drive in that as much of the data may be readable even if the hard drive will not boot , try first booting the computer from a linux boot disk or hirens boot disk which has recovery software that can read damaged hard drives.
No in my opinion. I tried that and they recovered almost nothing. Next time back up with Carbonite.
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