There are a few things you can try before taking it in.
If you have a chassis to plug it into another computer, put your harddrive in a plastic bag and then put it in the freezer. Typically harddrives crash because of a physical problem in the harddrive itself (eg: head is touching the platter). The freezing will contract the metal and let you grab your data off.
Leave it in the freezer overnight, try it afterwards and see what you can get.
If that doesn't work, bring it in. Data recovery places have more advanced recovery tools that can be used. They usually give you an estimate depending on how difficult the recovery will be.
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