Buy a notebook to desktop drive cable or an external USB 2.0/firewire 2.5" drive enclosure, attach the drive to a working desktop or notebook and copy what you can. You may be able to retrieve some or all of your data depending on how far gone the drive is.

If the drive is totally unreadable (shows up as "unknown device" in setup), you'll need to decide whether spending several hundred-several thousand dollars on data recovery is worth it.

Thank you for your help, I think I am going to go with option A!