This topic came up at least once before here in the past. I have a tool that I've used (the name escapes me right now) that worked WONDERS for me in the past. It chugged and churned away at the drive for something like 2 days straight, and I got back all but just a couple of photos and a couple of other files. I recovered something like 20,000 photos and critical documents, and lost less than 10. I'll see if I can look on my desktop PC for the tool.
If that or SpinRite doesn't work, then you can send it off somewhere, but the last time I looked (which was about 2 years ago or so), it was a couple thousand dollars. Then again, I may not have been looking in the right places back then...
